1782 in art

Events

• 29 April – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1782 opens at Somerset House in London, UK.
• Spring – George Romney first paints Emma Hart.The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli is shown at the Royal Academy of London.

Works

• Étienne Maurice Falconet – Bronze Horseman
• Thomas Gainsborough
• * George, Prince of Wales
• * John Hayes St Leger
• * Master Nicholls
• * Girl with Pigs
• Thomas Jones – House in Naples and similar oil sketches
• Angelica Kauffman – Allegory of poetry and music
• Joseph Lange – Portrait of his sister-in-law Constanze Mozart
• Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat
• Charles Willson Peale – John Eager Howard in Uniform
• Sir Joshua Reynolds
• * Portrait of William Beckford
• * Captain George K. H. Coussmaker
• * The Infant Academy
• * Portrait of Banastre Tarleton
• George Romney – Two paintings of Emma Hart as Circe
• Gilbert Stuart – The Skater
• Johann Zoffany – ''Charles Towneley in his Sculpture Gallery''

Births

• February 9 – William Havell, English landscape painter, part of the Havell family
• February 17 – Thomas Baxter, English porcelain painter
• March 24 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism
• May 16 – John Sell Cotman – English artist of the Norwich school especially watercolours
• May 25 – Vigilius Eriksen, Danish painter and royal portraitist
• October 13 – Joseph Nigg, Austrian painter, with painting on porcelain a specialty
• December 3 – Henry William Pickersgill, English painter specialising in portraits date unknown
• * Sir William Allan, Scottish historical painter
• * Frédéric Théodore Faber, Belgian landscape and genre painter
• * Kazimierz Jelski, Polish architect and sculptor
• * Yakov Kolokolnikov-Voronin, Russian portraitist and icon-painter
• * Frederick Nash, English painter and draughtsman
• * William Sadler, Irish landscape painter
• * Johann Baptist Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter
• * Alexander Varnek, Russian portrait painter approximate date – John Edward Carew, Irish sculptor

Deaths

• January 11 – Joseph Johann Kauffmann, Austrian painter of portraits, church decorations, and castle depictions
• March 22 – Joachim Martin Falbe, German portrait painter
• April 16 – Giuseppe Vasi, Italian painter
• May 6 – Johann Caspar Füssli, Swiss portrait painter
• May 15 – Richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter
• June 10 – Paulus Constantijn la Fargue, Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman
• June 26 – Antonio Visentini, Italian architect, painter and engraver
• July 17 – Peter Cramer, Danish book illustrator, decorative and theatrical painter
• August 19 – Francesco de Mura, Italian painter of portraits and frescoes
• December 13 – Christian Friedrich Boetius, German engraver
• December 23 – Claude Drevet, French portrait engraver date unknown – Maria Maddalena Baldacci, Italian painter born in Florence