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.
 * 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.

Paintings

 * Antoine Coypel – Democritus
 * Cornelis Dusart – The Pedlar
 * Sir Godfrey Kneller – Portraits of Lord Archibald Hamilton and Katharine Howard
 * Hyacinthe Rigaud
 * La famille Léonard
 * Portrait of Martin Desjardins
 * Johann Michael Rottmayr – The Baptism of St. Ottilia by St. Erhard (Erhardkirche, Salzburg)
 * Dome of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora, Greece

Births

 * June 13 – Joseph Highmore, British portrait and historical painter (died 1780)
 * September 1 (baptized) – 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)

Deaths

 * January 3 – Roelant Roghman, Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver (born 1627)
 * March – Willem de Heusch, Dutch landscape painter (born 1625)
 * April – Abraham-César Lamoureux, French sculptor working in Scandinavia (buried April 27)
 * April 23 – Pieter Withoos, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1655)
 * July – David Loggan, Danzig-born English artist (born 1635)
 * July 22 – Pietro del Po, Italian painter (born 1616)
 * September 28 – Cornelis Bloemaert, Dutch painter and engraver (born 1603)
 * date unknown
 * Pietro Aquila, Italian painter and printmaker (born 1630)
 * Charles Beaubrun, French portrait painter (born 1604)
 * José de Cieza, Spanish painter (born 1656)
 * Prosper Henricus Lankrink, Flemish painter and art collector working in England (born 1628)
 * Theodore Poulakis, Greek Renaissance painter (born 1622)
 * Emanuel de Witte, Dutch perspective painter (born 1617)