1692 in art

Events from the year 1692 in art.

Events

The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is founded by the court painter Peter Strudel.
Godfrey Kneller, court painter in England, is knighted.^[1]
On a winter evening, painter Emanuel de Witte commits suicide by jumping from a bridge with a rope around his neck. The canal freezes over and his body is not found for several weeks.^[2]

Antoine Coypel â Democritus
Cornelis Dusart â The Pedlar^[3]
Sir Godfrey Kneller â Portraits of Lord Archibald Hamilton and Katharine Howard
Hyacinthe Rigaud
- La famille LÃ©onard
- Portrait of Martin Desjardins
Johann Michael Rottmayr â The Baptism of St. Ottilia by St. Erhard (Erhardkirche, Salzburg)
Dome of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora, Greece

June 13 â Joseph Highmore, British portrait and historical painter (died 1780)
September 1 (baptized) â Egid Quirin Asam, German plasterer and sculptor active during the period of the Late Baroque (died 1750)
date unknown
- Antonio Baldi, Italian painter and engraver (died 1768)
- Vittorio Bigari, Italian painter (died 1776)
- Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, Italian painter and engraver from Florence (died 1768)
- Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, Italian Rococo-style painter from Florence (died 1768)
- Jacob Folkema, Dutch designer and engraver (died 1767)
- Giovanni Giacomo Monti, Italian painter of quadratura (d. unknown)
- Francesco Zucchi, Italian engraver (died 1764)