# 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.
* The Exhibition of 1762 is held by the Society of Artists of Great Britain at Pall Mall in London

## Paintings

* Pompeo Batoni – Portrait of the Duke of Grafton
* Thomas Davies – An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara
* François-Hubert Drouais – Portrait of Dmitry Mikhaylovich Golitsyn
* William Marlow – Blackfriars Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral
* Nathaniel Hone – Portrait of Lieutenant-General the Hon Philip Sherard and Captain William Tiffin at the Battle of Brücke-Mühl
* Allan Ramsay
** Coronation Portrait of George III
** Coronation Portrait of Queen Charlotte
** 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
* Richard Wilson – Kew Gardens: The Pagoda and Bridge
* 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)