Events from the year 1872 in art.
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- April 2 – Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor and painter of portraits and historic scenes (born 1791)
- April 10 – John Mix Stanley, American painter (born 1814)
- May 24 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (born 1794)
- August 8 – Eduard Magnus, German painter (born 1799)
- September 30 - Jakob Alt, German landscape painter (born 1789)
- October 29 – Thomas Combe, English printer and patron of the arts (born 1796)
- November 5 – Thomas Sully, English-born American portrait painter (born 1783)
- November 13 - Margaret Sarah Carpenter, English portrait painter (born 1793)
- November 25 - John Partridge, British artist and portrait painter (born 1789)
- December 23 – George Catlin, American painter who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West (born 1796)
- probable - Severin Roesen, American painter of still lives (born 1815)
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