1752 in art

Events from the year 1752 in art.

Events

1 March – Scottish painter Allan Ramsay elopes with and marries, as his second wife, the Jacobite heiress Margaret Lindsay.
A fire at Kremsier (modern-day Kroměříž in Moravia) destroys the originals of three 16th-century paintings made by Hans Holbein the Younger in England: Sir Thomas More and his family, The Triumph of Wealth and The Triumph of Poverty.^[1]

January 1 – Betsy Ross, American flag designer and seamstress (died 1836)
January 18 – Josiah Boydell, British publisher and painter (died 1817)
February 5 – Jean Grandjean, Dutch painter, draftsman and watercolourist (died 1781)
April 4 – Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, Swiss painter (died 1809)
April 21 – Humphry Repton, English garden designer and artist (died 1818)
August 21 – Antonio Cavallucci, Italian painter (died 1795)
September – George Keith Ralph, British portrait painter (died 1811)
September 28 – John the Painter, born James Aitken, painter turned terrorist in British naval dockyards in 1776–77 (hanged 1777)
date unknown
- John Robert Cozens, English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes (died 1797)
- George Farington, English artist (died 1788)
- Rosalie Filleul, French painter (died 1794)^[3]
- Jean-Baptiste Giraud, French sculptor (died 1830)
- Luke Havell, English engraver, etcher and painter (died 1810)
- Torii Kiyonaga, Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker and painter of the Torii school (died 1815)
- 1752/1753: William Baillie, British artist working in India (died 1799)
- 1752/1754: Abraham Abramson, Prussian coiner and medallist (died 1811)

January 11 – Johann Jakob Frey the Elder, Swiss engraver (born 1681)
January 26 – Jean-François de Troy, French painter (born 1679)
April 6 – Friedrich Christian Glume, German sculptor (born 1714)
March 21 – Gio Nicola Buhagiar, Maltese painter (born 1698)
May 4 – Pieter Snyers, Flemish art collector, painter, draughtsman and engraver (born 1681)
May 24 – Charles Parrocel, French painter and engraver and a specialist in battle and hunting scenes (born 1688)
June 15 – Charles-Antoine Coypel, French painter, art commentator and playwright (born 1694)
June 29 – Antonio Corradini, Venetian Rococo sculptor (born 1688)
June 30 – James Seymour, English painter of equestrian subjects (born 1702)
October 20 (bur.) – William Verelst, English painter of portraits, still lifes and birds (born 1704)
date unknown
- Jacopo Amigoni, Italian painter known for mythological figures and religious artifacts, best known for his initial work in Venice (born 1682)
- Bian Shoumin, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (born 1684)
probable - Robert Feke, American painter (born ca. 1705)