1742 in art

Events from the year 1742 in art.

Events

 * Canaletto paints in England.

Works

 * François Boucher – Diana Leaving her Bath
 * Canaletto
 * The Porta Portello, Padua (1741–1742) (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
 * Rome: The Arch of Constantine (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
 * Rome: The Arch of Septimius Severus (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
 * Rome: The Arch of Titus (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
 * Rome: The Pantheon (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
 * Rome: Ruins of the Forum looking towards the Capitol (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
 * William Hogarth (paintings)
 * Miss Mary Edwards
 * Taste in High Life (engraved in 1746)
 * Vincenzo Meucci – Glory of Florentine Saints (fresco on interior of dome, basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence)
 * Jacques Saly – Portrait bust of Emanuel Pinto de Fonseca, Grand Master of the Order of the Maltese Cross

Births

 * February 15 – Yves-Marie Le Gouaz, French engraver (died 1816)
 * April 24 – Richard Crosse, English painter of portrait miniatures (died 1810)
 * July 12 – Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch decorative painter (died 1819)
 * September 8 – Ozias Humphrey, English painter of portrait miniatures (died 1810)
 * September 26 – Thomas Jones, Welsh artist of watercolours and sketches (died 1803)
 * November 5 – Richard Cosway, British miniaturist (died 1821)
 * date unknown
 * John Edwards, English botanist, painter, designer and illustrator (died 1815)
 * Kim Eung-hwan, Korean painter of the late Joseon period (died 1789)
 * John Kay, caricaturist (died 1826)

Deaths

 * March 13 – Gilles-Marie Oppenordt, French designer (born 1672)
 * June 9 – Simone Brentana, Italian painter, active in Verona (born 1656)
 * July 19 – Jan Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor active in the Netherlands (born 1697)
 * December 3 – Claude Aubriet, illustrator and botanical artist (born 1651)
 * date unknown – Faustino Bocchi, Italian painter, active in Brescia, who specialized in bizarre paintings of dwarfs (born 1659)
 * probable – Eleazar Albin, naturalist and illustrator