1832 in art

Events

• 7 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1832 opens at Somerset House
• New Society of Painters in Water Colours holds its first exhibition, in London.

Awards

• Prix de Rome
• * for painting – Antoine Wiertz
• * for sculpture – François Jouffroy

Works

• Martin Archer Shee – Portrait of Thomas Denman
• Louis-Léopold Boilly – A Carnival Scene
• William Collins – Rustic Civility
• John Constable
• * Englefield House
• * The Opening of Waterloo Bridge
• * Sir Richard Steele's Cottage, Hampstead
• William Etty
• * The Destroying Angel and Daemons of Evil Interrupting the Orgies of the Vicious and Intemperate
• * Phaedria and Cymochles
• * Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm
• Francesco Hayez – Mary Stuart Proclaiming Her Innocence
• Hokusai – The Great Wave off Kanagawa
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Portrait of Monsieur Bertin
• Henry Inman - "Pes-Ke-Le-Cha-Co"
• George Jones – The Opening of London Bridge
• Edwin Landseer – Hawking in the Olden Time
• James Arthur O'Connor – A Thunderstorm: The Frightened Wagoner
• Joseph Paelinck – Juno
• Jan Willem Pieneman – Portrait of General David Hendrik Chassé
• Clarkson Stanfield – The Opening of New London Bridge
• J. M. W. Turner
• * Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy
• * Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple
• * Helvoetsluys
• * Staffa, Fingal's Cave
• * The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay
• Horace Vernet – Raphael at the Vatican
• Richard Westmacott - Statue of George Canning, Parliament Square
• David Wilkie
• * Portrait of William IV
• * ''The Preaching of John Knox Before the Lords of the Congregation''

Births

• January 6 – Gustave Doré, French illustrator
• January 23 – Édouard Manet, French painter,
• January 27 – Arthur Hughes, English Pre-Raphaelite painter
• February 21 – Louis Maurer, German American lithographer
• March 4 – Samuel Colman, American Hudson River school painter
• May 12 – Carl von Perbandt, German landscape painter
• June 1 – Henrietta Ward, English painter
• July 3 – Louis-Charles Verwee, Belgian painter
• July 27 – Đura Jakšić, Serbian painter and poet
• November 15 – Hermann Ottomar Herzog, German American landscape painter
• December 12 – Mauritz de Haas, Dutch American marine painter
• George Anderson Lawson, Scottish-born sculptor
• Approximate date – Emma Brownlow, English genre painter

Deaths

• February 2 – Amos Doolittle, American engraver
• February 22
• *Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness
• *Asensio Juliá, Spanish painter and engraver
• March 13 – Aleksander Orłowski, Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire
• March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and art critic
• March 30 – Dora Stock, German portrait painter
• March 31 – Antoni Brodowski, Polish Neo-classicist painter and pedagogue
• April 13
• * Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, French miniature painter
• * Joseph Barney, English painter
• April 22 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter
• April 23 – François-Nicolas Delaistre, French sculptor
• May 7 – Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois, French physicist and painter
• June 24 – Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux, French medal engraver
• August 17 – James Bisset, Scottish-born artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet
• September 22
• *Philibert-Louis Debucourt, French painter and engraver
• *William Fowler, English artist
• October 14 – Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and art writer date unknown:
• * Edme Bovinet, French engraver
• * John Comerford, Irish miniature painter
• * Augustin Félix Fortin, French painter of landscapes, and of genre and historical subjects
• * Robert Havell, Sr., English engraver and publisher
• * Anna Rajecka, Polish painter and drawing artist