Events from the year 1712 in art.

Events

• August 15 – The new abbey church at Fulda, with its high altar designed by Johann Neudecker and the stuccoist Giovanni Battista Artari, is dedicated by Prince-Abbot Adalbert von Schleifras.
• Charles-André van Loo travels to Rome to study under Benedetto Luti and Pierre Legros.
• Lorenzo Mattielli settles in Vienna.

Paintings

• Rosalba Carriera – Bacchante with a tambourine
• Giuseppe Maria Crespi – The Seven Sacraments series
• Ádám Mányoki – Portrait of Francis II Rákóczi
• Paolo de Matteis – The Choice of Hercules (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
• Adriaen van der Werff – The Judgement of Paris

Births

• February 19 – Arthur Devis, English portrait painter, particularly known for his conversation pieces and other such small portraits (died 1787)
• October 5 – Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter of veduta (died 1793)
• October 30 – Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, German painter (died 1774)
• December 11 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher and art critic (died 1764)
• date unknown
  • Giuseppe Angeli, Italian painter of the late-baroque active mainly in Venice (died 1798)
  • John Cleveley the Elder, English marine artist (died 1777)
  • Simon Fokke, Dutch designer, etcher, and engraver (died 1784)
  • Nicolas Jean Baptiste Poilly, French draftsman and engraver (died 1780)
  • Toriyama Sekien, scholar and ukiyo-e artist of Japanese folklore (died 1788)
  • Johan Stålbom, Finnish painter who later lived and worked in Sweden (died 1777)
  • Stefano Torelli, Italian painter of altar-pieces and ceiling decorations (died 1784)
• probable
  • Károly Bebo, Hungarian sculptor, builder and decorator noted for his stucco work (died 1777)

Deaths

• May 30 – Andrea Lanzani, Italian painter for the Habsburg court (born 1645)
• August 23 – Jan Kryštof Liška, Czech Baroque painter (born 1650)
• September 9
  • Jan Jiří Heinsch, Czech-German painter of the Baroque style (born 1647)
  • Jean Mauger, French medallist (born 1648)
• September 12 – Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter (born 1637)
• November 26 – Pietro Dandini, Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Florence (born 1646)
• date unknown
  • Louis Audran, French engraver (born 1670)
  • Andrea Celesti, Venetian painter (born 1637)
  • Giovanni Evangelista Draghi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1657)
  • Buhurizade Mustafa Itri, Ottoman-Turkish musician, composer, calligrapher, singer and poet (born 1640)
  • Francesco Monti (il Brescianino), Italian painter of battle scenes (born 1646)
  • Lars Myra, Finnish painter (born unknown)
  • Michelangelo Palloni, Italian painter (born 1637)