1733 in art

Events from the year 1733 in art.

Events

 * March – William Hogarth sketches Sarah Malcolm, convicted of murder, in her condemned cell in London; from this he immediately publishes an engraving and makes a painting.

Works

 * Pompeo Batoni – Madonna on a Throne with Child and four Saints and Blesseds of the Gabrielli family (San Gregorio Magno al Celio, Rome)
 * William Hoare of Bath – Portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
 * Sebastiano Ricci
 * Baldassarre and Ester before Ahasuerus (Quirinal Palace, Rome)
 * Pope Gregory the Great intercedes for souls in Purgatory (St-Gervais-et-St-Protais, Paris)
 * Pope Pius V, Saints Thomas Acquinus and Peter Martyr (Gesuati, Venice)
 * Saint Francisco resuscitates the child Paola (San Rocco, Venice)
 * Saint Helen discovers the True Cross (San Rocco, Venice)

Births

 * January 8 – Anton von Maron, Austrian painter active in Rome (died 1808)
 * January 18 – Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, Swiss watercolour painter (died 1794)
 * March 13 – Johann Zoffany, German neoclassical painter (died 1810)
 * March 23 – Josiah Spode, English potter (died 1797)
 * May – Franz Edmund Weirotter, Austrian landscape painter (died 1771)
 * May 21 – Johanna Juliana Friederike Bacciarelli, German painter (died 1809 or later)
 * May 22 – Hubert Robert, French painter (died 1808)
 * June 12
 * Alessandro Longhi, Venetian portrait painter and printmaker in etching (died 1813)
 * Maruyama Ōkyo, Japanese painter (died 1795)
 * October 5 – Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau, French painter and winner of the Grand prix de Rome (died 1796)
 * October 30 – Sawrey Gilpin, English painter of animals (died 1807)
 * date unknown
 * Jean-Baptiste Claudot, French painter of landscapes, flowers and still-life (died 1805)
 * Luo Ping, Chinese Qing dynasty painter, one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (died 1799)
 * Franciszek Pinck, Polish sculptor and stucco artist (died 1798)
 * Anna Brita Sergel, textile artist of the royal Swedish court (died 1819)

Deaths

 * January 18 – Simon Gribelin, French line engraver (born 1661)
 * February 28 – Ignaz Waibl, Austrian woodcarver (born 1661)
 * April 15 - Englebert Fisen, Flemish painter (born 1655)
 * May 1 – Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor (born 1658)
 * May 8 – Bernard Picart, French engraver (born 1673)
 * July – Jan van Huchtenburg, Dutch painter (born 1647)
 * August 24 – Pierre-Étienne Monnot, French sculptor (born 1657)
 * November 2 – Louis de Boullogne, French painter and brother of Bon Boullogne (born 1657)
 * December 2 – Gerard Hoet, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1648)
 * date unknown
 * Nicolas Fouché, French painter (born 1653)
 * Alexis Grimou, French painter (born 1678)
 * Gaetano Martoriello, Italian painter of marine vedute and landscapes (born 1680)
 * Giacomo Parolini, Italian painter of altarpieces (born 1663)
 * Giovanni Stefano Robatto, Italian painter of churches in Genoa (born 1649)
 * Thomas van der Wilt, Dutch painter (born 1659)