1762 in art
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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.[1]
- 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
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Paintings
- Pompeo Batoni â Portrait of the Duke of Grafton
- Thomas Davies â An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara
- François-Hubert Drouais â Portrait of Dmitry Mikhaylovich Golitsyn
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Nathaniel Hone â Portrait of Lieutenant-General the Hon Philip Sherard and Captain William Tiffin at the Battle of Brücke-Mühl
- William Marlow â Blackfriars Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral
- Allan Ramsay
- Coronation Portrait of George III
- Coronation Portrait of Queen Charlotte
- Countess of Elgin
- Joshua Reynolds â Portraits of Sir Charles Spencer; the Earl of Shaftesbury; Emma, Lady Edgcumbe; and Ostenaco, Mankiller of Keowee
- Dominic Serres â The Piazza at Havana
- George Stubbs (some dates approximate)[2]
- Lion Attacking a Horse (two versions)
- 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 â View of Rochefort Harbour from the Magasin des Colonies[3]
- Richard Wilson
- 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 â Eberhard Wächter, painter (died 1852)
- June 16 â Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian painter, especially of history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes (died 1844)
- August 10 â Arthur William Devis â English portrait and historical painter (died 1822)
- October 4 â William Sawrey Gilpin, watercolour painter (died 1843)
- December 30 â John Emes, British engraver and water-colour painter (died 1810)
- date unknown
- Pierre-Michel Alix, French engraver (died 1817)
- James Bisset, Scottish-born artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet (died 1832)
- Giovanni Battista Ballanti, sculptor (died 1835)
- Vicente Calderón de la Barca, Spanish historical painter (died 1794)
- Pietro Fontana, Italian engraver (died 1837)
- Anna Rajecka, Polish painter and drawing artist (died 1832)
- Francesco Rosaspina, Italian engraver (died 1841)
- Jan Rustem, Turkish-born portrait painter (died 1835)
- William Frederick Wells, English watercolour painter and etcher (died 1836)
Deaths
- January 11 â Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (born 1695)
- April 2 â Johann Georg Bergmüller, painter of frescoes (born 1688)
- July 16 â Giovanni Francesco Braccioli, Italian painter, mainly active in Ferrara (born 1698)
- July 20 â Paul Troger, Austrian painter, draughtsman and printmaker of the late Baroque period (born 1698)
- July 27 â Edmé Bouchardon, French sculptor (born 1698)
- August 31 â Pietro Rotari, Italian painter of portraits and altarpieces (born 1707)
- October 22 â Karl Aigen, German painter, master painter/tutor with Daniel Gran in Vienna (born 1684)
- November 18 â Agostino Veracini, Italian painter and engraver (born 1689)
- date unknown
- Joseph Antony Adolph, Moravian painter (born 1729)
- Jean-Baptiste Gilles, French painter of portraits in miniature and water-colours (born 1680)
- Andreas Møller, Danish portrait painter and pioneer of miniature painting (born 1684)
- Lars Pinnerud, Norwegian farmer and woodcarver (born 1700)