1782 in art

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Events

• The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli is shown at the Royal Academy of London.

Works

John Singleton Copley – Midshipman Augustus Brine

• John Singleton Copley – Midshipman Augustus Brine
• Étienne Maurice Falconet – Bronze Horseman (Saint Petersburg)
• Thomas Gainsborough – Master Nicholls (The Pink Boy)
• Thomas Jones – House in Naples and similar oil sketches^[1]
• Joseph Lange – Portrait of his sister-in-law Constanze Mozart
• Charles Willson Peale – John Eager Howard in Uniform
• Sir Joshua Reynolds
  • Captain George K. H. Coussmaker
  • Colonel Tarleton
• Gilbert Stuart – The Skater
• Johann Zoffany – Charles Towneley in his Sculpture Gallery

Births

• February 17 - Thomas Baxter, porcelain painter (died 1821)
• March 24 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism (died 1836)
• April 7 – Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey – sculptor (died 1841)
• May 16 – John Sell Cotman – English artist of the Norwich school especially watercolours (died 1842)
• October 13 – Joseph Nigg – Austrian painter, with painting on porcelain a specialty (died 1863)
• date unknown
  • Sir William Allan, historical painter (died 1850)
  • Yakov Kolokolnikov-Voronin – Russian portraitist and icon-painter (died 1845)
  • William Sadler – Irish landscape painter (died 1839)

Deaths

• January 11 – Joseph Johann Kauffmann, Austrian painter of portraits, church decorations, and castle depictions (born 1707)
• 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 26 – Antonio Visentini, architect, painter and engraver (born 1688)
• date unknown
  • Maria Maddalena Baldacci – Italian painter born in Florence (born 1718)
  • Antonio Bassi, painter from Ferrara
  • Claude Drevet – French portrait engraver (born 1705)
  • Francesco de Mura, Italian painter of portraits and frescoes (born 1696)
  • Francis Swaine, British marine painter (born 1725)

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