1702 in art explained
Events from the year 1702 in art.
Events
- Completion of the Nyatapola Temple in Nepal by King Bhupatindra Malla.
Paintings
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