title: 1772 in art
text: # 1772 in art
  
  Events from the year 1772 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * July 13 – Captain James Cook leaves Plymouth in HMS Resolution on his second voyage of exploration with landscape painter William Hodges onboard (in lieu of Johann Zoffany).
  * 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)
  * Thomas Gainsborough
     * The Linley Sisters
     * William Johnstone-Pulteney
  * Thomas Jones – Pencerrig
  * Tilly Kettle – Dancing Girls (Blacks)
  * Anton Raphael Mengs – The Triumph of History over Time (Allegory of the Museum Clementinum; ceiling fresco in the Camera dei Papiri, Vatican Library)
  * Fyodor Rokotov – Portrait of Alexandra Struyskaya
  * Alexander Roslin
     * King Christian VII of Denmark
     * King Gustav III of Sweden
  * George Stubbs
     * The Kongouro from New Holland
     * Portrait of a Large Dog
  * Claude Joseph Vernet – The Shipwreck
  * Joseph Wright of Derby – Miravan Breaking Open the Tomb of his Ancestors
  * Johann Zoffany
     * The Academicians of the Royal Academy
     * Queen Charlotte with her children and brothers
  * Copley – Samuel Adams
  * Gainsborough – The Linley Sisters
  * Rokotov – Portrait of Alexandra Struyskaya
  * Vernet – The Shipwreck
  
  ## Awards
  
  * John Flaxman is unsuccessful in the competition for the gold medal of the Royal Academy.
  
  ## Births
  
  * February 8 – Louis-Marie Autissier, French-born Belgian portrait miniature painter (died 1830)
  * February 26 – Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter of portraits and history paintings (died 1820)
  * May 11 – Adélaïde Victoire Hall, French painter (died 1844)
  * August 11 – Eduard Joseph d'Alton, German engraver and naturalist (died 1840)
  * September 19 – Vicente López y Portaña, Spanish portrait painter (died 1850)
  * date unknown
     * Edward Bird, painter (died 1819)
     * Alexander Day, English miniature painter and art dealer (died 1841)
     * François Louis Thomas Francia, landscape painter (died 1839)
     * William Hamlin, American engraver and the first engraver for the state of Rhode Island (died 1869)
     * Joaquín Bernardo Rubert, Spanish still life floral painter (died 1817)
     * Wendela Gustafva Sparre, Swedish textile artist and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Art (died 1855)
     * Pavel Đurković, Serbian painter and muralist (died 1830).
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * June 1 – Marcellus Laroon the Younger, English painter and draughtsman (born 1679)
  * June 4 – Johann Michael Feuchtmayer, stucco sculptor and plasterer (born 1709)
  * August 31 – Marie-Suzanne Giroust, French painter (born 1734)
  * October 12 – Samuel Scott, English marine and topographical painter and etcher (born 1702)
  * October 20 – William Taverner, English judge and landscape painter (born 1703)
  * November 11 – Jan Maurits Quinkhard, Dutch painter and print designer (born 1688)
  * November 19 – Charles Norbert Roettiers, French engraver (born 1720)
  * date unknown
     * Benoît Audran the Younger, French engraver (born 1698)
     * Giovanni Angelo Borroni, Italian painter of the late-Baroque and early-Neoclassic periods (born 1684)
     * Robert Gillow, furniture designer (born 1704)
     * José Romeo, Spanish painter (born 1701)
     * Huang Shen, Chinese painter (born 1687)
     * Johanne Seizberg, German-Danish illustrator and teacher (born 1732)
     * Alejandro González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque architect and painter (born 1719)
     * Zou Yigui, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (born 1686)
  