Events from the year 1782 in art.

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

• 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
  • 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
• 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

• 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)

• 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)