1782 in art

Last updated October 27, 2025

Events

29 April – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1782 opens at Somerset House
Spring – George Romney first paints Emma Hart.
The Nightmare (1781) by Henry Fuseli is shown at the Royal Academy of London.

Works

Portrait of Banastre Tarleton by Joshua Reynolds. Banastre-Tarleton-by-Joshua-Reynolds.jpg — *Portrait of Banastre Tarleton* by Joshua Reynolds.

Antonio Canova - Theseus and the Minotaur (Victoria and Albert Museum)
John Singleton Copley
- Midshipman Augustus Brine
- Portrait of Richard Heber
Anne Seymour Damer – Two Sleeping Dogs (terracotta original)
Étienne Maurice Falconet – Bronze Horseman (Saint Petersburg)
Thomas Gainsborough
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
Nicholas Pocock – The Close of the Battle of the Saintes
Sir Joshua Reynolds
George Romney – Two paintings of Emma Hart as Circe
Dominic Serres – Gibraltar Relieved By Sir George Rodney
Gilbert Stuart – The Skater
Benjamin West – Oliver Cromwell Dissolving the Long Parliament
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)^{[ clarification needed ]}
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)

References

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

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

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