1782 in art

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Events from the year 1782 in art.

## Events

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The Nightmare (1781) by Henry Fuseli is shown at the Royal Academy of London John Singleton Copley – Midshipman Augustus Brine

* 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

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Portrait of Banastre Tarleton by Joshua Reynolds.

* Antonio Canova \- Theseus and the Minotaur (Victoria and Albert Museum)
* John Singleton Copley – Midshipman Augustus Brine
* Anne Seymour Damer – Two Sleeping Dogs (terracotta original)
* Étienne Maurice Falconet – Bronze Horseman (Saint Petersburg)
* Thomas Gainsborough
* George, Prince of Wales
* Portrait of Giovanna Baccelli
* John Hayes St Leger
* Master Nicholls (The Pink Boy)
* Girl with Pigs
* 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
* Portrait of William Beckford
* Captain George K. H. Coussmaker
* The Infant Academy
* Portrait of Banastre Tarleton
* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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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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