1782 in art

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 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, 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 – Maria Maddalena Baldacci, Italian painter born in Florence (born 1718)

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