1792 in art

Events

• 30 April – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1792 opens at Somerset House in London
• Ozias Humphry is appointed Portrait Painter in Crayons to King George III of Great Britain.
• François-André Vincent becomes a professor at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.
• The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden, is founded as the Kungliga Museet.

Works

• Richard Cosway – Portrait miniature of George, Prince of Wales
• Jacques-Louis David – Portrait of Madame Marie-Louise Trudaine
• Samuel Jennings – Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences
• Alexander Kucharsky – Louis-Charles, Prince Royal of France
• Thomas Lawrence
• * Portrait of Arthur Atherley
• * Portrait of the Duke of Portland
• * Portrait of Graham Moore
• * John Julius Angerstein and His Wife
• Philip James de Loutherbourg – The Destruction of Pharaoh's Army
• Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
• * Anne Pitt as Hebe
• * Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante
• George Stubbs
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• John Trumbull
• * Alexander Hamilton
• * General George Washington at Trenton
• Utamaro – Famous Beauties of Edo, Ten Learned Studies of Women and ''Ten Types of Women's Physiognomies''

Births

• February 19 – Lucie Ingemann, née Mandix, Danish religious painter
• February 24 – István Ferenczy, Hungarian sculptor
• June 14 – Peter Andreas Brandt, Norwegian painter and illustrator
• June 16 – John Linnell, English landscape painter
• June 26 – Christian Albrecht Jensen, Danish painter
• August 9
• * Alvan Fisher, United States landscape and genre painter
• * Charles-François Lebœuf, French sculptor
• August 12 – Hans Harder, Danish painter and drawing master
• August 30 – Alexis Joseph Depaulis, French sculptor and medallist
• September 1 – Chester Harding, American portrait painter
• October 31 – Jean-Baptiste Roman, French sculptor
• December 17 – George Hayter, English portrait painter
• December 20 – Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French designer and painter, especially of military subjects date unknown
• * Arnoldus Bloemers, Dutch painter of flowers, fruit, and animals
• * Carl Georg Enslen, Austrian painter
• * Ferdinand Wolfgang Flachenecker, German painter
• * James Arthur O'Connor, Irish landscape painter
• * James Pollard, British painter and aquatint engraver especially of coach, fox hunting and equine scenes
• * Ulla Stenberg, Swedish damask maker
• * William Guy Wall, American painter of Irish birth
• * Thomas Wyon, English engraver of medals
• * 1792/1793: George Mills, British sculptor, engraver and medallist

Deaths

• February 1 – Nicolas-Guy Brenet, French historical painter
• February 21 – Jacob Schnebbelie, English illustrator and engraver
• February 23 – Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter, specializing in portraits
• March 3 – Robert Adam, Scottish-born architect and interior designer
• May 7 – Aert Schouman, Dutch painter, glass engraver and art dealer
• October 29 – Anna Maria Mengs, German portrait painter in pastel and miniature
• December 4 – Antonio Ponz, Spanish painter
• December 12 – William Hoare, English painter, noted for his pastels
• December 17 – Gottlieb Welté, German etcher and landscape painter date unknown
• * Francesco Appiani, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Rome and Perugia
• * Manuel de la Cruz, Spanish painter
• * Pietro Scalvini, Italian painter
• * Katsukawa Shunshō, Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style