1692 in art

Last updated February 24, 2026

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

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 – Abraham-César Lamoureux, French sculptor working in Scandinavia (buried April 27)^[4]
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

↑ Stewart, J. Douglas (2004). "Kneller, Sir Godfrey, baronet (1646–1723)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15710 . Retrieved 2012-04-12.(subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required)
↑ De Grote Schouwburg (1995) Schildersbiografieën van Arnold Houbraken. Samenstelling Jan Konst en Manfred Sellink.
↑ "The Pedlar". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
↑ "Abraham César Lamoureux", Kunstindeks Danmark: Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon (in Danish), Copenhagen: Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces , retrieved 2019-03-22

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[1] Stewart, J. Douglas (2004). "Kneller, Sir Godfrey, baronet (1646–1723)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15710 . Retrieved 2012-04-12.(subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required)

[2] De Grote Schouwburg (1995) Schildersbiografieën van Arnold Houbraken. Samenstelling Jan Konst en Manfred Sellink.

[3] "The Pedlar". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2012-04-12.

[weilbach-4] "Abraham César Lamoureux", Kunstindeks Danmark: Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon (in Danish), Copenhagen: Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces , retrieved 2019-03-22

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