1692 in art

Events from the year 1692 in art.

Events

• The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is founded by the court painter Peter Strudel.
• Godfrey Kneller, court painter in England, is knighted.^[1]
• On a winter evening, painter Emanuel de Witte commits suicide by jumping from a bridge with a rope around his neck. The canal freezes over and his body is not found for several weeks.^[2]

Paintings

Rigaud - Portrait of Martin Desjardins

• Antoine Coypel – Democritus
• Cornelis Dusart – The Pedlar^[3]
• Sir Godfrey Kneller – Portraits of Lord Archibald Hamilton and Katharine Howard
• Hyacinthe Rigaud
  • La famille Léonard
  • Portrait of Martin Desjardins
• Johann Michael Rottmayr – The Baptism of St. Ottilia by St. Erhard (Erhardkirche, Salzburg)
• Dome of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora, Greece

Births

• June 13 – Joseph Highmore, British portrait and historical painter (died 1780)
• September 1 (baptized) – Egid Quirin Asam, German plasterer and sculptor active during the period of the Late Baroque (died 1750)
• date unknown
  • Antonio Baldi, Italian painter and engraver (died 1768)
  • Vittorio Bigari, Italian painter (died 1776)
  • Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, Italian painter and engraver from Florence (died 1768)
  • Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, Italian Rococo-style painter from Florence (died 1768)
  • Jacob Folkema, Dutch designer and engraver (died 1767)
  • Giovanni Giacomo Monti, Italian painter of quadratura (d. unknown)
  • Francesco Zucchi, Italian engraver (died 1764)

Deaths

• January 3 – Roelant Roghman, Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver (born 1627)
• March – Willem de Heusch, Dutch landscape painter (born 1625)
• April 23 – Pieter Withoos, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1655)
• July – David Loggan, Danzig-born English artist (born 1635)
• July 22 – Pietro del Po, Italian painter (born 1616)
• September 28 – Cornelis Bloemaert, Dutch painter and engraver (born 1603)
• date unknown
  • Pietro Aquila, Italian painter and printmaker (born 1630)
  • Charles Beaubrun, French portrait painter (born 1604)
  • José de Cieza, Spanish painter (born 1656)
  • Prosper Henricus Lankrink, Flemish painter and art collector working in England (born 1628)
  • Theodore Poulakis, Greek Renaissance painter (born 1622)
  • Emanuel de Witte, Dutch perspective painter (born 1617)

References