1772 in art

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John Singleton Copley, Samuel Adams (1772)

Events

• 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
• Fyodor Rokotov – Portrait of Alexandra Struyskaya

Portrait of Alexandra Struyskaya by Fyodor Rokotov

Births

• February 26 – Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter of portraits and history paintings (d. 1820)
• May 11 – Adélaïde Victoire Hall, French painter (d. 1844)
• September 19 – Vicente López y Portaña, Spanish portrait painter (d. 1850)
• date unknown
  • Edward Bird, painter (d. 1819)
  • François Louis Thomas Francia, landscape painter (d. 1839)
  • Wendela Gustafva Sparre, Swedish textile artist and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Art (d. 1855)

Deaths

• June 4 – Johann Michael Feuchtmayer, stucco sculptor and plasterer (b. 1709)
• August 31 – Marie-Suzanne Giroust, French painter (b. 1734)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Angelo Borroni, Italian painter of the late-Baroque and early-Neoclassic periods (b. 1684)
  • Robert Gillow, furniture designer (b. 1704)
  • Huang Shen, Chinese painter (b. 1687)
  • Samuel Scott, English marine and topographical painter and etcher (b. 1702)
  • Johanne Seizberg – German-Danish illustrator and teacher (b. 1732)
  • Zou Yigui – Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (b. 1686)