1782 in art

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Events

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

Births

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

Deaths

• January 11 – Joseph Johann Kauffmann, Austrian painter of portraits, church decorations, and castle depictions (b. 1707)
• April 16 – Giuseppe Vasi, painter (b. 1710)
• May 6 – Johann Caspar Füssli, portrait painter (b. 1706)
• May 15 – Richard Wilson, landscape painter (b. 1714)
• June 26 – Antonio Visentini, architect, painter and engraver (b. 1688)
• date unknown
  • Maria Maddalena Baldacci – Italian painter born in Florence (b. 1718)
  • Antonio Bassi, painter from Ferrara
  • Claude Drevet – French portrait engraver (b. 1705)
  • Francesco de Mura, Italian painter of portraits and frescoes (b. 1696)
  • Francis Swaine, British marine painter (b. 1725)