1782 in art

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Events from the year 1782 in art.

Events

The Nightmare (1781) by Henry Fuseli is shown at the Royal Academy of London

John Singleton Copley – Midshipman Augustus Brine

John Singleton Copley – Midshipman Augustus Brine
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^[1]
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 Sir Banastre Tarleton
George Romney – Two paintings of Emma Hart as Circe
Gilbert Stuart – The Skater
Johann Zoffany – Charles Towneley in his Sculpture Gallery

February 9 – William Havell, English landscape painter, part of the Havell family (died 1857)
February 17 – Thomas Baxter, porcelain painter (died 1821)
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, historical painter (died 1850)
- Frédéric Théodore Faber, Belgian landscape and genre painter (died 1844)
- Moritz Fuerst, American engraver and medallist (died 1840)
- Kazimierz Jelski, Polish architect and sculptor (died 1867)
- Yakov Kolokolnikov-Voronin, Russian portraitist and icon-painter (died 1845)
- Henry Hoppner Meyer, portrait painter (died 1847)
- 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)

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, painter (born 1710)
May 6 – Johann Caspar Füssli, portrait painter (born 1706)
May 15 – Richard Wilson, landscape painter (born 1714)
June 10 – Paulus Constantijn la Fargue, Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman (born 1729)
June 26 – Antonio Visentini, 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
- Maria Maddalena Baldacci, Italian painter born in Florence (born 1718)
- Antonio Bassi, painter from Ferrara
- Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni, Italian portrait painter (born 1721)
- Francis Swaine, British marine painter (born 1725)

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↑ Sumner, Ann; Smith, Greg, ed. (2003). Thomas Jones (1742-1803): an artist rediscovered. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09923-1.