1742 in art

Events

• Canaletto paints in England.

Works

• François Boucher – Diana Leaving her Bath
• Canaletto
• * The Porta Portello, Padua
• * Rome: The Arch of Constantine
• * Rome: The Arch of Septimius Severus
• * Rome: The Arch of Titus
• * Rome: The Pantheon
• * Rome: Ruins of the Forum looking towards the Capitol
• William Hogarth
• * Miss Mary Edwards
• * Taste in High Life
• Vincenzo Meucci – Glory of Florentine Saints
• Jacques Saly – Portrait bust of Emanuel Pinto de Fonseca, Grand Master of the Order of the Maltese Cross
• Samuel Scott – ''The Building of Westminster Bridge''

Births

• February 15 – Yves-Marie Le Gouaz, French engraver
• April 24 – Richard Crosse, English painter of portrait miniatures
• July 12 – Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch decorative painter
• September 8 – Ozias Humphrey, English painter of portrait miniatures
• September 26 – Thomas Jones, Welsh artist of watercolours and sketches
• November 5 – Richard Cosway, British miniaturist date unknown
• * John Edwards, English botanist, painter, designer and illustrator
• * Kim Eung-hwan, Korean painter of the late Joseon period
• * John Kay, caricaturist

Deaths

• March 13 – Gilles-Marie Oppenordt, French designer
• June 9 – Simone Brentana, Italian painter, active in Verona
• July 19 – Jan Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor active in the Netherlands
• December 3 – Claude Aubriet, illustrator and botanical artist date unknown – Faustino Bocchi, Italian painter, active in Brescia, who specialized in bizarre paintings of dwarfs probable – Eleazar Albin, naturalist and illustrator