1702 in art

Events from the year 1702 in art.

Events

• Completion of the Nyatapola Temple in Nepal by King Bhupatindra Malla.

Paintings

• Ludolf Bakhuizen – The Battle of Vigo Bay
• Ogata Kōrin – Irises
• Sebastiano Ricci
  • Allegory of the princely virtues (Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna)
  • Assumption of the Virgin (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden)

Births

• July 31 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (died 1768)
• August 15 – Francesco Zuccarelli, painter, elected to the Venetian Academy in 1763 (died 1788)
• December 22 – Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter (died 1789)
• date unknown
  • Matthijs Accama, Dutch historical and emblematical subjects painter (died 1783)
  • Joseph Aved, also called le Camelot (The Hawker) and Avet le Batave (The Dutch Avet), French Rococo portraitist (died 1766)
  • Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, French engraver, portraitist, illustrator, and printmaker (died 1760)
  • Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, German painter (died 1761)
  • Placido Costanzi, Italian painter of the Costanzi family of artists (died 1759)
  • Ercole Lelli – Italian painter of became director of the Academy at Bologna (died 1762)
  • Carlo Marchionni, Italian sculptor and architect (died 1786)
  • Andrey Matveyev, Russian portraitist (died 1739)
  • Samuel Scott, English marine and topographical painter and etcher (died 1772)
  • James Seymour, English painter known for his equestrian art (died 1752)
  • József Lénárd Wéber, Hungarian sculptor (died 1773)

Deaths

• May 10 – Antonio Gherardi, painter, sculptor and architect (born 1638)
• May 17 – Jan Wyck, Dutch painter of military subjects (born 1652)
• July 22 – Filippo Parodi, sculptor (born 1630)
• date unknown
  • Federico Agnelli, Italian engraver and printer, active in Milan (born 1626)
  • Isidoro Arredondo, Spanish painter (born 1653)
  • Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter (born 1633)
  • Nicolaes de Vree, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1645)
  • Marcellus Laroon, Dutch painter and engraver, active in England (born 1653)
  • Didrik Möllerum, Finnish painter (born 1642)
  • Bernardo Racchetti, Italian painter of imaginary vedute (born 1639)