1782 in art

Events from the year 1782 in art.

Events

 * Spring – George Romney first paints Emma Hart.
 * The Nightmare (1781) by Henry Fuseli is shown at the Royal Academy of London.

Works

 * Antonio Canova - Theseus and the Minotaur (Victoria and Albert Museum)
 * John Singleton Copley – Midshipman Augustus Brine
 * Anne Seymour Damer – Two Sleeping Dogs (terracotta original)
 * Étienne Maurice Falconet – Bronze Horseman (Saint Petersburg)
 * Thomas Gainsborough
 * George, Prince of Wales
 * John Hayes St Leger
 * Master Nicholls (The Pink Boy)
 * 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
 * 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 (died 1857)
 * February 17 – Thomas Baxter, English porcelain painter (died 1821)
 * March – Moritz Fuerst, American engraver and medallist (died 1840)
 * March 24 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism (died 1836)
 * May 16 – John Sell Cotman – English artist of the Norwich school especially watercolours (died 1842)
 * May 25 – Vigilius Eriksen, Danish painter and royal portraitist (born 1722)
 * October 13 – Joseph Nigg, Austrian painter, with painting on porcelain a specialty (died 1863)
 * December 3 – Henry William Pickersgill, English painter specialising in portraits (died 1875)
 * date unknown
 * Sir William Allan, Scottish historical painter (died 1850)
 * Frédéric Théodore Faber, Belgian landscape and genre painter (died 1844)
 * Kazimierz Jelski, Polish architect and sculptor (died 1867)
 * Yakov Kolokolnikov-Voronin, Russian portraitist and icon-painter (died 1845)
 * Frederick Nash, English painter and draughtsman (died 1856)
 * William Sadler, Irish landscape painter (died 1839)
 * Johann Baptist Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (died 1868)
 * Alexander Varnek, Russian portrait painter (died 1843)
 * approximate date – John Edward Carew, Irish sculptor (died 1868)

Deaths

 * January 11 – Joseph Johann Kauffmann, Austrian painter of portraits, church decorations, and castle depictions (born 1707)
 * March 22 – Joachim Martin Falbe, German portrait painter (born 1709)
 * April 16 – Giuseppe Vasi, Italian painter (born 1710)
 * May 6 – Johann Caspar Füssli, Swiss portrait painter (born 1706)
 * May 15 – Richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter (born 1714)
 * June 10 – Paulus Constantijn la Fargue, Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman (born 1729)
 * June 26 – Antonio Visentini, Italian architect, painter and engraver (born 1688)
 * July 17 – Peter Cramer, Danish book illustrator, decorative and theatrical painter (born 1726)
 * August 19 – Francesco de Mura, Italian painter of portraits and frescoes (born 1696)
 * December 13 – Christian Friedrich Boetius, German engraver (born 1706)
 * December 23 – Claude Drevet, French portrait engraver (born 1705)
 * date unknown
 * Sabina Auffenwerth, German potter (born 1706)
 * Maria Maddalena Baldacci, Italian painter born in Florence (born 1718)
 * Antonio Bassi, painter from Ferrara
 * Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni, Tyrolean portrait painter (born 1721)
 * Francis Swaine, English marine painter (born 1725)