1752 in art
Events from the year 1752 in art.
Events
- 1 March – Scottish painter Allan Ramsay elopes with and marries, as his second wife, the Jacobite heiress Margaret Lindsay.
- A fire at Kremsier destroys the originals of three 16th century paintings made by Hans Holbein the Younger in England: Sir Thomas More and his family, The Triumph of Wealth and The Triumph of Poverty.
Works
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- * Allegory of Music
- * Marie-Louise O'Murphy
- * A Reclining Nymph Playing The Flute With Putti, Perhaps The Muse Euterpe
- Canaletto
- * Northumberland House
- * Warwick Castle, the East Front from the Outer Court
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Jeroboam Sacrificing to Idols
- Jean-Marc Nattier – Baronne Rigoley d'Ogny as Aurora
- Louis-François Roubiliac – Monument to John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu
- Gaspare Traversi
- * Murder during Meal at the House of Absalom
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Births
- January 1 – Betsy Ross, American flag designer and seamstress
- January 18 – Josiah Boydell, British publisher and painter
- February 5 – Jean Grandjean, Dutch painter, draftsman and watercolourist
- April 4 – Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, Swiss painter
- April 21 – Humphry Repton, English garden designer and artist
- August 21 – Antonio Cavallucci, Italian painter
- September – George Keith Ralph, British portrait painter
- September 28 – John the Painter, born James Aitken, painter turned terrorist in British naval dockyards in 1776–77 date unknown
- * John Robert Cozens, English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes
- * George Farington, English artist
- *Rosalie Filleul, French painter
- * Jean-Baptiste Giraud, French sculptor
- * Luke Havell, English engraver, etcher and painter
- * Torii Kiyonaga, Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker and painter of the Torii school
- * 1752/1753: William Baillie, British artist working in India
- * 1752/1754: Abraham Abramson, Prussian coiner and medallist
Deaths
- January 11 – Johann Jakob Frey the Elder, Swiss engraver
- January 26 – Jean-François de Troy, French painter
- April 6 – Friedrich Christian Glume, German sculptor
- March 21 – Gio Nicola Buhagiar, Maltese painter
- May 4 – Pieter Snyers, Flemish art collector, painter, draughtsman and engraver
- May 24 – Charles Parrocel, French painter and engraver and a specialist in battle and hunting scenes
- June 15 – Charles-Antoine Coypel, French painter, art commentator and playwright
- June 29 – Antonio Corradini, Venetian Rococo sculptor
- June 30 – James Seymour, English painter of equestrian subjects
- October 20 – William Verelst, English painter of portraits, still lifes and birds date unknown
- * Jacopo Amigoni, Italian painter known for mythological figures and religious artifacts, best known for his initial work in Venice
- * Bian Shoumin, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty probable - Robert Feke, American painter