Events from the year 1742 in art.
Events
Works
- François Boucher â '
- Canaletto
- The Porta Portello, Padua (1741âÂÂ1742) (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
- Rome: The Arch of Constantine (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
- Rome: The Arch of Septimius Severus (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
- Rome: The Arch of Titus (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
- Rome: The Pantheon (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
- Rome: Ruins of the Forum looking towards the Capitol (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
- William Hogarth (paintings)
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- Taste in High Life (engraved in 1746)
- Vincenzo Meucci â ' (fresco on interior of dome, basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence)
- Jacques Saly â Portrait bust of Emanuel Pinto de Fonseca, Grand Master of the Order of the Maltese Cross
- Samuel Scott â The Building of Westminster Bridge
Births
- February 15 â Yves-Marie Le Gouaz, French engraver (died 1816)
- April 24 â Richard Crosse, English painter of portrait miniatures (died 1810)
- July 12 â Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch decorative painter (died 1819)
- September 8 â Ozias Humphrey, English painter of portrait miniatures (died 1810)
- September 26 â Thomas Jones, Welsh artist of watercolours and sketches (died 1803)
- November 5 â Richard Cosway, British miniaturist (died 1821)
- date unknown
- John Edwards, English botanist, painter, designer and illustrator (died 1815)
- Kim Eung-hwan, Korean painter of the late Joseon period (died 1789)
- John Kay, caricaturist (died 1826)
Deaths