1752 in art

Events

• 1 March - Painter Allan Ramsay elopes with and marries, as his second wife, the Jacobite heiress Margaret Lindsay.

Paintings

• François Boucher (1703–1770):
  • Marie-Louise O'Murphy
  • Allegory of Music
  • A Reclining Nymph Playing The Flute With Putti, Perhaps The Muse Euterpe.

Births

• January 1 – Betsy Ross, US flag designer and seamstress (d. 1836)
• April 4 – Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, Swiss painter (d. 1809)
• April 21 – Humphry Repton, garden designer, artist (d. 1818)
• August 21 – Antonio Cavallucci, Italian painter of the late Baroque (d. 1795)
• date unknown
  • John Robert Cozens, English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes (d. 1797)
  • John Raphael Smith, English painter and mezzotint engraver (d. 1812)
  • John the Painter, painter turned terrorist, in British naval dockyards in 1776-77 (d. 1777)
  • Torii Kiyonaga, Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker and painter of the Torii school (d. 1815)
  • Robert Smirke, painter (d. 1845)

Deaths

• January 26 – Jean-François de Troy, French painter (b. 1679)
• May 24 – Charles Parrocel, French painter and engraver and a specialist of battle and hunt paintings (b. 1688)
• June 15 – Charles-Antoine Coypel, French painter, art commentator, and playwright (b. 1694)
• June 29 – Antonio Corradini, Venetian Rococo sculptor (b. 1688)
• date unknown
  • Jacopo Amigoni, Italian painter known for mythological figures and religious artifacts, best known for his initial work in Venice (b. 1682)
  • Bian Shoumin, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (b. 1684)
  • James Seymour, English painter of equestrian subjects (b. 1702)