1762 in art

Events

* Trevi Fountain is completed after 30 years of work

Paintings

* (unknown)

Births

* Arthur William Devis - English painter of history paintings and portraits (d. 1822)
* Eberhard Wächter - painter (d. 1852)
* William Sawrey Gilpin - watercolour painter (d. 1843)
* William Frederick Wells - English watercolour painter and etcher (d. 1836)
* Giuseppe Bernardino Bison - Italian painter, especially of history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes (d. 1844)
* John Charles Felix Rossi - Sculptor (d. 1839)

Deaths

* January 11 - Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695)
* Karl Aigen - German painter (b. 1684), master painter/tutor with Daniel Gran in Vienna.
* Johann Georg Bergmüller, painter of frescoes, of the Baroque (b. 1688)
* Giovanni Francesco Braccioli - Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Ferrara (b. 1698)
* Ercole Lelli - Italian painter of became director of the Academy at Bologna (b. 1702)
* Pietro Rotari - Italian painter of portraits and altarpieces (b. 1707)
* Paul Troger - Austrian painter, draughtsman and printmaker of the late Baroque period (b. 1698)