1732 in art

Events

* Nicola Salvi begins work on the new Trevi Fountain

Works

* Canaletto paints "View of the Entrance to the Venetian Arsenal".
* Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin paints "Lady Sealing a Letter".
* William Hogarth - "A Midnight Modern Conversation"

Births

*April 5 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and printmaker (d. 1806)
* Carl-Ludwig Christinek - Russian painter (d. 1792)
* François-Joseph Duret - French sculptor (d. 1816)

Deaths

*February 18 - Balthasar Permoser, Austrian sculptor (born 1651)
*February 28 - André Charles Boulle, cabinet maker (born 1642)
*October 25 - Andrea Brustolon, Italian sculptor in wood (born 1662)
* Herman Moll, engraver (born c.1654)
* Felice Boselli, Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1650)
* Jiang Tingxi, Chinese painter (b. 1669)
* Abducelil Celebi Levni, Turkish/Italian poet and painter, in the service of the court at Istanbul (b. 1680)
* Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian painter (b. 1680)
* Francesco Bassi - Italian painter active in the early-Baroque period (b. 1642)
* Felice Boselli - Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Piacenza (b. 1650)
* Antonio Gionima - Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (b. 1697)
* Gasparo Lopez - Italian painter of flowers (b. 1677)
* Giovanni Battista Revello - Italian painter of landscape elements for other historical painters (b. 1672)
* Giuseppe Tonelli - Italian painter of frescoes and quadratura (b. 1668)
* Bartolomeo Pedon - Italian veduta painter (b. 1665)