Events from the year 1682 in art.

Events

• (unknown)

Works

• Thomas Cartwright - Statue of Edward VI (St Thomas' Hospital, London)
• Nicolas Colombel - Christ Expelling the Money-Changers from the Temple
• Luca Giordano - The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
• Godfrey Kneller - Portrait of Anne, Duchess of Hamilton
• Claude Lorrain - Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia

Births

• February 13 – Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian rococo painter (died 1754)
• April 15 – Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (died 1749)
• May 27 - Bernard Lens III, English artist known primarily for his portrait miniatures (died 1740)
• August 15 - Annibale Albani, Italian Cardinal, whose library, gallery of paintings/sculpture, and cabinet of coins were added to the Vatican collection (died 1751)
• October 24 - William Aikman (painter), Scottish portrait-painter (died 1731)
• date unknown
  • Giacomo Adolfi, Italian painter, active in and around Bergamo (died 1741)
  • Jacopo Amigoni, Italian painter known for mythological figures and religious artifacts, best known for his initial work in Venice (died 1752)
  • Mosen Vicente Bru, Spanish painter (died 1703)
  • Margareta Capsia, Finnish painter (died 1759)
  • Claude Du Bosc, French engraver (died 1745)
  • Jean Charles Flipart, French engraver (died 1751)
  • Girolamo Gatti, Italian painter (died 1726)
  • Gustavus Hesselius, Swedish-American painter (died 1755)
  • Hua Yan, Chinese painter from Fujian province (died 1756)
  • Isabel Jolís Oliver, Spanish printer and engraver (died 1770)
  • Giovanni Domenico Lombardi, Italian painter in Lucca (died 1751)
  • Kaspar Anton von Baroni-Cavalcabo, Italian painter (died 1759)
  • Alexey Zubov, Russian etcher (died 1741)
• probable
  • Shen Quan, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (died 1760)
  • John Wootton, English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes (died 1764)

Deaths

• January 13 - Francesco Cozza, Italian painter (born 1605)
• February 2 - Jean Le Pautre, French designer and engraver (born 1618)
• March 14 - Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael, celebrated Dutch landscape painter (born 1628)
• April 3 - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (born 1617)
• May 23 - Abraham Wuchters, Dutch-Danish painter and engraver (born 1608)
• November 23 - Claude Lorrain, French landscape painter (born c.1600)
• date unknown
  • Niccolò Berrettoni, Italian painter (born 1637)
  • Jacopo Baccarini, Italian painter of the Baroque period born in Reggio (born 1605)
  • Pieter Janssens Elinga, Dutch painter (born 1623)
  • Giacinto de Popoli, Italian painter active near his native city of Orta (b. unknown)
  • Urbano Romanelli, Italian painter in Rome and in churches at Velletri (born 1645)