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1782 in art

Events from the year 1782 in art.

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Events

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

    • Works

  • 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
  • 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

    • Births

  • 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)

    • 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, 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)

    • References

    1782 in art Wikipedia
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