1733 in art

Events from the year 1733 in art.

Events

5 March – William Hogarth sketches Sarah Malcolm, convicted of murder, in her condemned cell in London; from this he immediately publishes an engraving and makes a painting.^[1]

Pompeo Batoni – Madonna on a Throne with Child and four Saints and Blesseds of the Gabrielli family (San Gregorio Magno al Celio, Rome)
William Hoare of Bath – Portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
William Hogarth – Southwark Fair^[2]
Philippe Mercier – The Music Party^[3]
Sebastiano Ricci
- Baldassarre and Ester before Ahasuerus (Quirinal Palace, Rome)
- Pope Gregory the Great intercedes for souls in Purgatory (St-Gervais-et-St-Protais, Paris)
- Pope Pius V, Saints Thomas Acquinus and Peter Martyr (Gesuati, Venice)
- Saint Francisco resuscitates the child Paola (San Rocco, Venice)
- Saint Helen discovers the True Cross (San Rocco, Venice)

January 8 – Anton von Maron, Austrian painter active in Rome (died 1808)
January 18 – Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, Swiss watercolour painter (died 1794)
March 13 – Johann Zoffany, German neoclassical painter (died 1810)
March 23 – Josiah Spode, English potter (died 1797)
May – Franz Edmund Weirotter, Austrian landscape painter (died 1771)
May 21 – Johanna Juliana Friederike Bacciarelli, German painter (died 1809 or later)
May 22 – Hubert Robert, French painter (died 1808)
June 12
- Alessandro Longhi, Venetian portrait painter and printmaker in etching (died 1813)
- Maruyama Ōkyo, Japanese painter (died 1795)
October 5 – Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau, French painter and winner of the Grand prix de Rome (died 1796)
October 30 – Sawrey Gilpin, English painter of animals (died 1807)
date unknown
- Jean-Baptiste Claudot, French painter of landscapes, flowers and still-life (died 1805)
- Luo Ping, Chinese Qing dynasty painter, one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (died 1799)
- Franciszek Pinck, Polish sculptor and stucco artist (died 1798)
- Anna Brita Sergel, textile artist of the royal Swedish court (died 1819)

January 18 – Simon Gribelin, French line engraver (born 1661)^[4]
February 28 – Ignaz Waibl, Austrian woodcarver (born 1661)
April 15 - Englebert Fisen, Flemish painter (born 1655)^[5]
May 1 – Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor (born 1658)
May 8 – Bernard Picart, French engraver (born 1673)
July – Jan van Huchtenburg, Dutch painter (born 1647)
August 24 – Pierre-Étienne Monnot, French sculptor (born 1657)
November 2 – Louis de Boullogne, French painter and brother of Bon Boullogne (born 1657)
December 2 – Gerard Hoet, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1648)
date unknown
- Nicolas Fouché, French painter (born 1653)^[6]
- Alexis Grimou, French painter (born 1678)
- Gaetano Martoriello, Italian painter of marine vedute and landscapes (born 1680)
- Giacomo Parolini, Italian painter of altarpieces (born 1663)
- Thomas van der Wilt, Dutch painter (born 1659)

^ "Sarah Malcolm (died 1733)". National Galleries. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
^ "Southwark Fair, 1733". Royal Academy of Arts. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
^ https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw00125/The-Music-Party
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^ Ágnes Szigethi (2004). Old French Painting: 16-18th Centuries. Museum of Fine Arts. p. 129.