1733 in art

Events

• 5 March – William Hogarth sketches Sarah Malcolm, convicted of murder, in her condemned cell in London; from this he immediately publishes an engraving and makes a painting.

Works

• Pompeo Batoni – Madonna on a Throne with Child and four Saints and Blesseds of the Gabrielli family
• William Hoare of Bath – Portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
• William Hogarth – Southwark Fair
• Sebastiano Ricci
• * Baldassarre and Ester before Ahasuerus
• * Pope Gregory the Great intercedes for souls in Purgatory
• * Pope Pius V, Saints Thomas Acquinus and Peter Martyr
• * Saint Francisco resuscitates the child Paola
• * ''Saint Helen discovers the True Cross''

Births

• January 8 – Anton von Maron, Austrian painter active in Rome
• January 18 – Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, Swiss watercolour painter
• March 13 – Johann Zoffany, German neoclassical painter
• March 23 – Josiah Spode, English potter
• May – Franz Edmund Weirotter, Austrian landscape painter
• May 21 – Johanna Juliana Friederike Bacciarelli, German painter
• May 22 – Hubert Robert, French painter
• June 12
• * Alessandro Longhi, Venetian portrait painter and printmaker in etching
• * Maruyama Ōkyo, Japanese painter
• October 5 – Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau, French painter and winner of the Grand prix de Rome
• October 30 – Sawrey Gilpin, English painter of animals date unknown
• * Jean-Baptiste Claudot, French painter of landscapes, flowers and still-life
• * Luo Ping, Chinese Qing dynasty painter, one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou
• * Franciszek Pinck, Polish sculptor and stucco artist
• * Anna Brita Sergel, textile artist of the royal Swedish court

Deaths

• January 18 – Simon Gribelin, French line engraver
• February 28 – Ignaz Waibl, Austrian woodcarver
• April 15 - Englebert Fisen, Flemish painter
• May 1 – Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor
• May 8 – Bernard Picart, French engraver
• July – Jan van Huchtenburg, Dutch painter
• August 24 – Pierre-Étienne Monnot, French sculptor
• November 2 – Louis de Boullogne, French painter and brother of Bon Boullogne
• December 2 – Gerard Hoet, Dutch Golden Age painter date unknown
• * Nicolas Fouché, French painter
• * Alexis Grimou, French painter
• * Gaetano Martoriello, Italian painter of marine vedute and landscapes
• * Giacomo Parolini, Italian painter of altarpieces
• * Thomas van der Wilt, Dutch painter