1752 in art

• 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. ==Works==

, ''Marie-Louise O'Murphy'' '' by Canaletto • François Boucher • Allegory of Music • ''Marie-Louise O'Murphy'' (approximate date) • A Reclining Nymph Playing The Flute With Putti, Perhaps The Muse Euterpe • Canaletto • Northumberland House • Warwick Castle, East Front from the Courtyard • Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Jeroboam Sacrificing to Idols • Jean-Marc Nattier – ''Baronne Rigoley d'Ogny as Aurora'' • Louis-François Roubiliac – Monument to John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu (marble, Warkton church, Northamptonshire, England) • Gaspare Traversi • Murder during Meal at the House of Absalom (Absalom murders Amnon) (Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Rome) • The Wound (Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice) ==Births==

• 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) • 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) ==Deaths==

• 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) ==References==