1732 in art

Events from the year 1732 in art.

Events

 * Nicola Salvi begins work on the new Trevi Fountain

Works

 * Canaletto
 * View of the Entrance to the Venetian Arsenal
 * Return of the Bucentoro to the Molo on Ascension Day
 * Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – Lady Sealing a Letter
 * Filippo della Valle – Cupid and Psyche (marble; approximate date)
 * William Hogarth – A Midnight Modern Conversation; A Harlot's Progress (engravings by the artist)

Births

 * January 25 – François Devosge, French portrait painter (died 1811)
 * February 22 – Jean-Bernard Restout, French painter (died 1797)
 * April 5 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and printmaker (died 1806)
 * May 27 – Christopher Unterberger, Italian painter of the early-Neoclassical period (died 1798)
 * November 18 – Pehr Hilleström, Swedish painter and teacher (died 1816)
 * date unknown
 * Christian Gottlob Fechhelm, German portrait and historical painter (died 1816)
 * Johanne Seizberg, German-Danish illustrator and teacher (died 1772)
 * probable
 * John Julius Angerstein, Russian-born British art collector (died 1823)
 * Carl-Ludwig Christinek, Russian painter (died 1794)

Deaths

 * February 18 – Balthasar Permoser, Austrian sculptor (born 1651)
 * February 28 – André Charles Boulle, cabinet maker (born 1642)
 * August 23 – Felice Boselli, Italian painter (born 1650)
 * September 22 – Herman Moll, engraver (born c. 1654)
 * October 25 – Andrea Brustolon, Italian sculptor in wood (born 1662)
 * date unknown
 * Francesco Bassi, Italian painter (born 1642)
 * Jacques-Philippe Ferrand, French miniaturist and painter in enamel (born 1653)
 * Antonio Gionima, Italian painter (born 1697)
 * Abdulcelil Levni, Turkish/Italian poet and painter, in the service of the court at Istanbul (born 1680)
 * Gasparo Lopez, Italian painter of flowers (born 1677)
 * Michele Pagano, Italian painter of landscapes or vedutista (born 1697)
 * Matthijs Pool, Dutch engraver (born 1676)
 * Giovanni Battista Revello, Italian painter of landscape elements for other historical painters (born 1672)
 * Jiang Tingxi, Chinese painter (born 1669)
 * Giuseppe Tonelli, Italian painter of frescoes and quadratura (born 1668)
 * Jan Joost van Cossiau, Flemish landscape painter and engraver (born 1660)
 * Richard Waitt, Scottish portrait painter