Events from the year 1832 in art.

Events

• New Society of Painters in Water Colours holds its first exhibition, in London.

Awards

• Prix de Rome
  • for painting – Antoine Wiertz
  • for sculpture – François Jouffroy

Works

• William Etty
  • The Destroying Angel and Daemons of Evil Interrupting the Orgies of the Vicious and Intemperate
  • Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm
• Hokusai – The Great Wave off Kanagawa
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Portrait of Monsieur Bertin
• Henry Inman - "Pes-Ke-Le-Cha-Co"
• James Arthur O'Connor – A Thunderstorm: The Frightened Wagoner
• Joseph Paelinck – Juno
• J. M. W. Turner – Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy
• Richard Westmacott - Statue of George Canning, Parliament Square

Births

• January 6 – Gustave Doré, French illustrator (died 1883)
• January 23 – Édouard Manet, French painter, (died 1883)
• January 27 – Arthur Hughes, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1915)
• February 21 – Louis Maurer, German American lithographer (died 1932 age 100)
• March 4 – Samuel Colman, American Hudson River school painter (died 1920)
• May 12 – Carl von Perbandt, German landscape painter (died 1911)
• June 1 – Henrietta Ward, English painter (died 1924)
• July 3 – Louis-Charles Verwee, Belgian painter (died 1882)
• July 27 – Đura Jakšić, Serbian painter and poet (died 1878)
• November 15 – Hermann Ottomar Herzog, German American landscape painter (died 1932)
• December 12 – Mauritz de Haas, Dutch American marine painter (died 1895)
• George Anderson Lawson, Scottish-born sculptor (died 1904)
• Approximate date – Emma Brownlow, English genre painter (died 1905)

Deaths

• February 2 – Amos Doolittle, American engraver (born 1752)
• February 22
  • Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness (born 1760)
  • Asensio Juliá, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1760)
• March 13 – Aleksander Orłowski, Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire (born 1777)
• March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and art critic (born 1749)
• March 30 – Dora Stock, German portrait painter (born 1760)
• March 31 – Antoni Brodowski, Polish Neo-classicist painter and pedagogue (born 1784)
• April 13
  • Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, French miniature painter (born 1759)
  • Joseph Barney, English painter (born 1753)
• April 22 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter (born 1760)
• April 23 – François-Nicolas Delaistre, French sculptor (born 1746)
• May 7 – Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois, French physicist and painter (born 1759)
• June 24 – Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux, French medal engraver (born 1751)
• August 17 – James Bisset, Scottish-born artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet (born 1762)
• September 22
  • Philibert-Louis Debucourt, French painter and engraver (born 1755)
  • William Fowler, English artist (born 1761)
• October 14 – Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and art writer (born 1760)^[1]
• date unknown:
  • Edme Bovinet, French engraver (born 1767)
  • John Comerford, Irish miniature painter (born 1773)
  • Augustin Félix Fortin, French painter of landscapes, and of genre and historical subjects (born 1763)
  • Robert Havell, Sr., English engraver and publisher (born 1769)
  • Anna Rajecka, Polish painter and drawing artist (born 1762)