1762 in art

Events from the year 1762 in art.

Events

 * The Trevi Fountain in Rome is completed after thirty years of work, with Nicola Salvi's design being modified by Giovanni Paolo Panini.
 * The equestrian statue of King Louis XV of France in the Place de la Concorde, Paris, is completed after around a dozen years, with Edmé Bouchardon's design being finished by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle; however, it will be destroyed during the French Revolution.
 * The art collection of Joseph Smith, former British consul in Venice, including many works by Canaletto, is sold to King George III of Great Britain for the Royal Collection.
 * James Stuart and Nicholas Revett's Antiquities of Athens is published.
 * Horace Walpole begins publication of Anecdotes of Painting in England, based on George Vertue's manuscript notes.

Paintings

 * Thomas Davies – An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara
 * François-Hubert Drouais – Portrait of Dmitry Mikhaylovich Golitsyn
 * Nathaniel Hone – Portrait of Lieutenant-General the Hon Philip Sherard and Captain William Tiffin at the Battle of Brücke-Mühl
 * Allan Ramsay – Portraits of George III of Great Britain; Queen Charlotte; and the Countess of Elgin
 * Joshua Reynolds – Portraits of Sir Charles Spencer; the Earl of Shaftesbury; Emma, Lady Edgcumbe; and Ostenaco, Mankiller of Keowee
 * Dominic Serres – The Piazza at Havana
 * George Stubbs (some dates approximate)
 * Lion Attacking a Horse (two versions)
 * Mare and Foals belonging to the 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke
 * Mare and Foals with an unfigured background
 * The Marquess of Rockingham's Scrub with John Singleton up
 * Molly Longlegs with a jockey
 * Scrub, a horse belonging to the Marquess of Rockingham
 * Whistlejacket
 * Whistlejacket with the head groom Mr Cobb and the two other principal stallions in the Wentworth stud
 * Johann Zoffany
 * The Garden at Hampton House, with Mr and Mrs David Garrick taking tea
 * The Shakespeare Temple at Hampton House, with Mr and Mrs David Garrick

Births

 * February 29 – Eberhard Wächter, painter (died 1852)
 * June 16 – Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian painter, especially of history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes (died 1844)
 * August 10 – Arthur William Devis – English portrait and historical painter (died 1822)
 * October 4 – William Sawrey Gilpin, watercolour painter (died 1843)
 * December 30 – John Emes, British engraver and water-colour painter (died 1810)
 * date unknown
 * Pierre-Michel Alix, French engraver (died 1817)
 * James Bisset, Scottish-born artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet (died 1832)
 * Giovanni Battista Ballanti, sculptor (died 1835)
 * Vicente Calderón de la Barca, Spanish historical painter (died 1794)
 * Pietro Fontana, Italian engraver (died 1837)
 * Anna Rajecka, Polish painter and drawing artist (died 1832)
 * Francesco Rosaspina, Italian engraver (died 1841)
 * Jan Rustem, Turkish-born portrait painter (died 1835)
 * William Frederick Wells, English watercolour painter and etcher (died 1836)

Deaths

 * January 11 – Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (born 1695)
 * April 2 – Johann Georg Bergmüller, painter of frescoes (born 1688)
 * July 16 – Giovanni Francesco Braccioli, Italian painter, mainly active in Ferrara (born 1698)
 * July 20 – Paul Troger, Austrian painter, draughtsman and printmaker of the late Baroque period (born 1698)
 * July 27 – Edmé Bouchardon, French sculptor (born 1698)
 * August 31 – Pietro Rotari, Italian painter of portraits and altarpieces (born 1707)
 * October 22 – Karl Aigen, German painter, master painter/tutor with Daniel Gran in Vienna (born 1684)
 * November 18 – Agostino Veracini, Italian painter and engraver (born 1689)
 * date unknown
 * Joseph Antony Adolph, Moravian painter (born 1729)
 * Jean-Baptiste Gilles, French painter of portraits in miniature and water-colours (born 1680)
 * Andreas Møller, Danish portrait painter and pioneer of miniature painting (born 1684)
 * Lars Pinnerud, Norwegian farmer and woodcarver (born 1700)