1772 in art

Events from the year 1772 in art.

Events

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

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)
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- 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).

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)
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- 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)