1772 in art
# 1772 in art

Events from the year 1772 in art.

## Events

* July 13 – Captain James Cook leaves Plymouth in HMS Resolution on his second voyage of exploration with landscape painter William Hodges onboard (in lieu of Johann Zoffany).
* King George III of the United Kingdom appoints Benjamin West official painter to the court.

## Works

* John Singleton Copley – Samuel Adams (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
* Thomas Gainsborough
   * The Linley Sisters
   * William Johnstone-Pulteney
* Thomas Jones – Pencerrig
* Tilly Kettle – Dancing Girls (Blacks)
* Anton Raphael Mengs – The Triumph of History over Time (Allegory of the Museum Clementinum; ceiling fresco in the Camera dei Papiri, Vatican Library)
* Fyodor Rokotov – Portrait of Alexandra Struyskaya
* Alexander Roslin
   * King Christian VII of Denmark
   * King Gustav III of Sweden
* George Stubbs
   * The Kongouro from New Holland
   * Portrait of a Large Dog
* Claude Joseph Vernet – The Shipwreck
* Joseph Wright of Derby – Miravan Breaking Open the Tomb of his Ancestors
* Johann Zoffany
   * The Academicians of the Royal Academy
   * Queen Charlotte with her children and brothers
* Copley – Samuel Adams
* Gainsborough – The Linley Sisters
* Rokotov – Portrait of Alexandra Struyskaya
* Vernet – The Shipwreck

## Awards

* John Flaxman is unsuccessful in the competition for the gold medal of the Royal Academy.

## Births

* February 8 – Louis-Marie Autissier, French-born Belgian portrait miniature painter (died 1830)
* February 26 – Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter of portraits and history paintings (died 1820)
* May 11 – Adélaïde Victoire Hall, French painter (died 1844)
* August 11 – Eduard Joseph d'Alton, German engraver and naturalist (died 1840)
* September 19 – Vicente López y Portaña, Spanish portrait painter (died 1850)
* date unknown
   * Edward Bird, painter (died 1819)
   * Alexander Day, English miniature painter and art dealer (died 1841)
   * François Louis Thomas Francia, landscape painter (died 1839)
   * William Hamlin, American engraver and the first engraver for the state of Rhode Island (died 1869)
   * Joaquín Bernardo Rubert, Spanish still life floral painter (died 1817)
   * Wendela Gustafva Sparre, Swedish textile artist and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Art (died 1855)
   * Pavel Đurković, Serbian painter and muralist (died 1830).

## Deaths

* June 1 – Marcellus Laroon the Younger, English painter and draughtsman (born 1679)
* June 4 – Johann Michael Feuchtmayer, stucco sculptor and plasterer (born 1709)
* August 31 – Marie-Suzanne Giroust, French painter (born 1734)
* October 12 – Samuel Scott, English marine and topographical painter and etcher (born 1702)
* October 20 – William Taverner, English judge and landscape painter (born 1703)
* November 11 – Jan Maurits Quinkhard, Dutch painter and print designer (born 1688)
* November 19 – Charles Norbert Roettiers, French engraver (born 1720)
* date unknown
   * Benoît Audran the Younger, French engraver (born 1698)
   * Giovanni Angelo Borroni, Italian painter of the late-Baroque and early-Neoclassic periods (born 1684)
   * Robert Gillow, furniture designer (born 1704)
   * José Romeo, Spanish painter (born 1701)
   * Huang Shen, Chinese painter (born 1687)
   * Johanne Seizberg, German-Danish illustrator and teacher (born 1732)
   * Alejandro González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque architect and painter (born 1719)
   * Zou Yigui, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (born 1686)
