1882 in art
Events from the year 1882 in art.
Events
- April 9 – English poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti dies aged 53 of Bright's disease at Birchington-on-Sea in the care of his brother, the critic William Michael Rossetti.
- March 1 – Seventh Impressionist exhibition in Paris opens at 251 rue Saint-Honoré.
- August – Vincent van Gogh starts painting in oil on the sea coast at Scheveningen, sponsored by his brother Theo.
- Walter Langley moves to Newlyn on the coast of Cornwall, becoming the first resident artist of the Newlyn School.
- The gallery of botanical illustrations made and donated by Marianne North is opened at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the first permanent solo exhibition by a female artist in Britain.
- The Royal Manchester Institution transfers its galleries and collections to Manchester Corporation as Manchester Art Gallery.
Works
- Marie Bashkirtseff – Head of a Woman
- Edward Burne-Jones – The Mill
- Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris – David's Charge to Solomon
- Gustave Caillebotte
- * Fruits on a stand
- * Yellow Roses in a Vase
- Paul Cézanne – Still Life With Compotier
- William Merritt Chase
- * Azaleas
- * In the Studio
- John Collier – Clytemnestra
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes – The Happy Land
- Henry Treffry Dunn – Rossetti and Watts-Dunton at 16 Cheyne Walk
- Frank Duveneck – Mary Cabot Wheelwright
- Nikolai Ge – Leo Tolstoy
- Aleksander Gierymski – In the Arbour
- Atkinson Grimshaw
- * Late October
- * '
- * View of Heath Street by Night
- William Halsall – Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor
- William Henry Holmes – Panorama from Point Sublime, looking East; The Grand Cañon at the foot of the Toroweap and The Temples and Towers of the Virgen
- Paul Jamin – The Death of the Prince Imperial
- Christian Krohg – Portrait of the Swedish Painter Karl Nordström
- P. S. Krøyer – Frederikke Tuxen
- Benjamin Williams Leader
- * In the evening it shall be light
- * Sunshine after Rain
- Wilhelm Leibl – Three Women in Church
- Konstantin Makovsky – Portrait of the Artist's Children
- Édouard Manet – A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
- Jan Matejko – Prussian Homage
- Albert Joseph Moore – '
- Frank O'Meara –
- Pierre Renoir – Blonde Bather
- Georges Rochegrosse - The Emperor Vitellius Dragged through the Streets of Rome by the People
- Auguste Rodin – The Kiss
- John Singer Sargent
- * Lady with the Rose (Charlotte Louise Burckhardt)
- * Portraits d'enfants (The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit)
- Joseph-Noël Sylvestre – The Gaul Ducar decapitates the Roman general Flaminus at the Battle of Trasimene
- James Tissot – The Garden Bench
- Vincent van Gogh
- * Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland series of drawings
- * Sien series of drawings, including Sorrow
- * Lying Cow
- Viktor Vasnetsov – Sergius of Radonezh
- William Frederick Yeames – ''Prince Arthur and Hubert de Burgh''
Births
- January 15 – Daniel Vázquez Díaz, Spanish painter
- January 18 – Aleksandra Ekster, born Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Grigorovich, Russian-Ukrainian painter and designer
- February 12 – Ljubomir Ivanović, Serbian painter
- April 2 – Estella Solomons, Irish painter.
- April 16 – André Edouard Marty, French artist
- May 5 – Sylvia Pankhurst, English-born suffragette and artist
- May 13 – Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor
- June 1 – Signe Hammarsten-Jansson, Swedish graphic artist
- June 4 – John Bauer, Swedish illustrator
- June 11 – Alvin Langdon Coburn, American-born pictorialist photographer
- June 21 – Rockwell Kent, American painter, printmaker, illustrator and writer
- July 22 – Edward Hopper, American painter and printmaker
- August 14 – Gisela Richter, English archaeologist and art historian
- August – George Bellows, American painter
- October 3
- * Auguste Chabaud, French painter
- * A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter
- October 10 – Lazar Drljača, Serbian painter
- October 19 – Umberto Boccioni, Italian Futurist painter and sculptor
- November 2 – Frederick Farrell, Scottish watercolourist, war artist
- November 18 – Wyndham Lewis, Nova Scotia-born English Vorticist painter and writer
- December 28 – Lili Elbe, born Einar Magnus Andreas Wegener, Danish-born artist
- Undated – Todor Švrakić, Serbian painter
Deaths
- January 14 – Timothy H. O'Sullivan, American Civil War photographer
- January 20
- * John Linnell, English landscape painter
- * William Miller, Scottish Quaker engraver
- February 7 – Édouard De Bièfve, Belgian painter
- March 30 – Henri Lehmann, German-born French painter
- April 10 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English Pre-Raphaelite painter
- April 18 – Elizabeth Goodridge, American miniature painter
- May 20 – Pietro Boyesen, Danish-born photographer
- June 3 – Christian Wilberg, German painter
- June 20 – Auguste François Biard, French genre painter
- July 8 – Hablot Knight Browne, English illustrator
- July 9 – Louis-Charles Verwee, Belgian painter
- August 14 – Niels Christian Kierkegaard, Danish draftsman and lithographer
- August 29 – Johann Halbig, German sculptor
- September 22 – Katarina Ivanović, Serbian painter
- September 23 – John Wharlton Bunney, English topographical painter
- October 25 – Emma Stebbins, American sculptor
- November 7 – Julius Hübner, German genre painter
- Unknown date
- * James Eights, American scientist and watercolour painter
- * George Hollingsworth, American painter