1702 in art

Events from the year 1702 in art.

Events

 * Completion of the Nyatapola Temple in Nepal by King Bhupatindra Malla.

Paintings

 * Ludolf Bakhuizen – The Battle of Vigo Bay
 * Ogata Kōrin – Irises
 * Sebastiano Ricci
 * Allegory of the princely virtues (Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna)
 * Assumption of the Virgin (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden)

Births

 * July 31 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (died 1768)
 * August 15 – Francesco Zuccarelli, painter, elected to the Venetian Academy in 1763 (died 1788)
 * December 22 – Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter (died 1789)
 * date unknown
 * Matthijs Accama, Dutch historical and emblematical subjects painter (died 1783)
 * Joseph Aved, also called le Camelot (The Hawker) and Avet le Batave (The Dutch Avet), French Rococo portraitist (died 1766)
 * Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, French engraver, portraitist, illustrator, and printmaker (died 1760)
 * Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, German painter (died 1761)
 * Placido Costanzi, Italian painter of the Costanzi family of artists (died 1759)
 * Ercole Lelli – Italian painter of became director of the Academy at Bologna (died 1762)
 * Carlo Marchionni, Italian sculptor and architect (died 1786)
 * Andrey Matveyev, Russian portraitist (died 1739)
 * Samuel Scott, English marine and topographical painter and etcher (died 1772)
 * James Seymour, English painter known for his equestrian art (died 1752)
 * József Lénárd Wéber, Hungarian sculptor (died 1773)

Deaths

 * May 10 – Antonio Gherardi, painter, sculptor and architect (born 1638)
 * May 17 – Jan Wyck, Dutch painter of military subjects (born 1652)
 * July 22 – Filippo Parodi, sculptor (born 1630)
 * date unknown
 * Federico Agnelli, Italian engraver and printer, active in Milan (born 1626)
 * Isidoro Arredondo, Spanish painter (born 1653)
 * Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter (born 1633)
 * Nicolaes de Vree, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1645)
 * Marcellus Laroon, Dutch painter and engraver, active in England (born 1653)
 * Didrik Möllerum, Finnish painter (born 1642)
 * Bernardo Racchetti, Italian painter of imaginary vedute (born 1639)