1832 in art

Events

• New Society of Painters in Water Colours holds its first exhibition, in London.

Awards

• Prix de Rome
  • for painting – Antoine Wiertz
  • for sculpture – François Jouffroy

Works

Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa from the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji color woodcut, 10 1/8 × 14 15/16 inches (25.7 x 37.9 cm); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

• Hokusai – The Great Wave off Kanagawa
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Portrait of Monsieur Bertin
• James Arthur O'Connor – A Thunderstorm: The Frightened Wagoner

Births

• January 6 – Gustave Doré, French illustrator (died 1883)
• January 23 – Édouard Manet, French painter, (died 1883)
• January 27 – Arthur Hughes, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1915)
• February 21 – Louis Maurer, German American lithographer (died 1932 age 100)
• March 4 – Samuel Colman, American Hudson River school painter (died 1920)
• June 1 – Henrietta Ward, English painter (died 1924)
• July 27 – Đura Jakšić, Serbian painter and poet (died 1878)
• November 15 – Hermann Ottomar Herzog, German American landscape painter (died 1932)
• December 12 – Mauritz de Haas, Dutch American marine painter (died 1895)

Deaths

• February 2 – Amos Doolittle, American engraver (born 1752)
• February 22
  • Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness (born 1760)
  • Asensio Juliá, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1760)
• March 13 – Aleksander Orłowski, Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire (born 1777)
• March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and art critic (born 1749)
• March 30 – Dora Stock, German portrait painter (born 1760)
• March 31 – Antoni Brodowski, Polish Neo-classicist painter and pedagogue (born 1784)
• April 13 – Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, French miniature painter (born 1759)
• April 22 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter (born 1760)
• April 23 – François-Nicolas Delaistre, French sculptor (born 1746)
• May 7 – Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois, French physicist and painter (born 1759)
• June 24 – Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux, French medal engraver (born 1751)
• September 22 – Philibert-Louis Debucourt, French painter and engraver (born 1755)
• October 14 – Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and art writer (born 1760)
• date unknown:
  • James Bisset, Scottish-born artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet (born 1762)
  • Edme Bovinet, French engraver (born 1767)
  • John Comerford, Irish miniature painter (born 1773)
  • Augustin Félix Fortin, French painter of landscapes, and of genre and historical subjects (born 1763)
  • William Fowler, English artist (born 1761)
  • Robert Havell, Sr., English engraver and publisher (born 1769)
  • Anna Rajecka, Polish painter and drawing artist (born 1762)