1762 in art

Events from the year 1762 in art.

Events

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is completed after thirty years of work, with Nicola Salvi's design being modified by Giovanni Paolo Panini.
The equestrian statue of King Louis XV of France in the Place de la Concorde, Paris, is completed after around a dozen years, with Edmé Bouchardon's design being finished by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle; however, it will be destroyed during the French Revolution.
The art collection of Joseph Smith, former British consul in Venice, including many works by Canaletto, is sold to King George III of Great Britain for the Royal Collection.
James Stuart and Nicholas Revett's Antiquities of Athens is published.
Horace Walpole begins publication of Anecdotes of Painting in England, based on George Vertue's manuscript notes.
The Exhibition of 1762 is held by the Society of Artists of Great Britain at Pall Mall in London

Paintings

Pompeo Batoni – Portrait of the Duke of Grafton
Thomas Davies – An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara
François-Hubert Drouais – Portrait of Dmitry Mikhaylovich Golitsyn
Thomas Gainsborough
* Portrait of Lady Alston
* Portrait of Sir Edward Turner
Nathaniel Hone – Portrait of Lieutenant-General the Hon Philip Sherard and Captain William Tiffin at the Battle of Brücke-Mühl
William Marlow – Blackfriars Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral
Allan Ramsay
* Coronation Portrait of George III
* Coronation Portrait of Queen Charlotte
*Countess of Elgin
Joshua Reynolds – Portraits of Sir Charles Spencer; the Earl of Shaftesbury; Emma, Lady Edgcumbe; and Ostenaco, Mankiller of Keowee
* Portrait of Nelly O'Brien
Dominic Serres – The Piazza at Havana
George Stubbs
*Lion Attacking a Horse
*Mare and Foals belonging to the 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke
*Mare and Foals with an unfigured background
*The Marquess of Rockingham's Scrub with John Singleton up
*Molly Longlegs with a jockey
*Scrub, a horse belonging to the Marquess of Rockingham
*Whistlejacket
*Whistlejacket with the head groom Mr Cobb and the two other principal stallions in the Wentworth stud
Joseph Vernet – View of Rochefort Harbour from the Magasin des Colonies
Richard Wilson
* Kew Gardens: The Pagoda and Bridge
* The Thames near Marble Hill, Twickenham
Johann Zoffany
*The Garden at Hampton House, with Mr and Mrs David Garrick taking tea
*''The Shakespeare Temple at Hampton House, with Mr and Mrs David Garrick''

Births

February 29 – Eberhard Wächter, painter
June 16 – Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian painter, especially of history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes
August 10 – Arthur William Devis – English portrait and historical painter
October 4 – William Sawrey Gilpin, watercolour painter
December 30 – John Emes, British engraver and water-colour painter
date unknown
*Pierre-Michel Alix, French engraver
*James Bisset, Scottish-born artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet
*Giovanni Battista Ballanti, sculptor
*Vicente Calderón de la Barca, Spanish historical painter
*Pietro Fontana, Italian engraver
*Anna Rajecka, Polish painter and drawing artist
*Francesco Rosaspina, Italian engraver
*Jan Rustem, Turkish-born portrait painter
*William Frederick Wells, English watercolour painter and etcher

Deaths

January 11 – Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor
April 2 – Johann Georg Bergmüller, painter of frescoes
July 16 – Giovanni Francesco Braccioli, Italian painter, mainly active in Ferrara
July 20 – Paul Troger, Austrian painter, draughtsman and printmaker of the late Baroque period
July 27 – Edmé Bouchardon, French sculptor
August 31 – Pietro Rotari, Italian painter of portraits and altarpieces
October 22 – Karl Aigen, German painter, master painter/tutor with Daniel Gran in Vienna
November 18 – Agostino Veracini, Italian painter and engraver date unknown
* Joseph Antony Adolph, Moravian painter
* Jean-Baptiste Gilles, French painter of portraits in miniature and water-colours
* Andreas Møller, Danish portrait painter and pioneer of miniature painting
* Lars Pinnerud, Norwegian farmer and woodcarver