1782 in art

Events

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

  Works

• John Singleton Copley – Midshipman Augustus Brine
• Anne Seymour Damer – Two Sleeping Dogs
• Étienne Maurice Falconet – Bronze Horseman
• Thomas Gainsborough
• * :File:Gainsborough - George IV Prince of Wales, 1782.jpg|George, Prince of Wales
• * :File:John Hayes St Leger - Gainsborough 1782.jpg|John Hayes St Leger
• * :File:Thomas Gainsborough painting "Master Nicholls", 1782.jpg|Master Nicholls
• * :File:Girl with Pigs by Thomas Gainsborough.jpg|Girl with Pigs
• Thomas Jones – :File:Thomas Jones 001.jpg|House in Naples and similar oil sketches
• Angelica Kauffman – :File:Angelica Kauffmann 003.jpg|Allegory of poetry and music
• Joseph Lange – :File:Costanze Mozart by Lange 1782.jpg|Portrait of his sister-in-law Constanze Mozart
• Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – :File:Self-portrait in a Straw Hat by Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun.jpg|Self-portrait in a Straw Hat
• Charles Willson Peale – :File:John Eager Howard Uniform.jpg|John Eager Howard in Uniform
• Sir Joshua Reynolds
• * Captain George K. H. Coussmaker
• * :File:The Infant Academy 1782.jpg|The Infant Academy
• * :File:Banastre-Tarleton-by-Joshua-Reynolds.jpg|Portrait of Sir Banastre Tarleton
• George Romney – Two paintings of Emma Hart as Circe
• Gilbert Stuart – The Skater
• Johann Zoffany – :File:Zoffani, Johann - Charles Towneley in his Sculpture Gallery - 1782.jpg|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 – Moritz Fuerst, American engraver and medallist
• 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
• * Sabina Auffenwerth, German potter
• * Maria Maddalena Baldacci, Italian painter born in Florence
• * Antonio Bassi, painter from Ferrara
• * Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni, Tyrolean portrait painter
• * Francis Swaine, English marine painter