# 1792 in art

Events from the year 1792 in art.

## Events

* Ozias Humphry is appointed Portrait Painter in Crayons (i.e., pastels) to King George III of Great Britain.
* François-André Vincent becomes a professor at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.
* The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden, is founded as the Kungliga Museet ("Royal Museum").

## Works

* Richard Cosway – Portrait miniature of George, Prince of Wales
* Jacques-Louis David – Portrait of Madame Marie-Louise Trudaine (unfinished)
* Samuel Jennings – Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences
* Alexander Kucharsky – Louis-Charles, Prince Royal of France
* Thomas Lawrence
** Portrait of Arthur Atherley
** Portrait of the Duke of Portland
* Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
** Anne Pitt as Hebe
** Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante
* George Stubbs
** A Couple of Foxhounds
** Rhinoceros
* John Trumbull
** Alexander Hamilton
** General George Washington at Trenton
* Utamaro – Famous Beauties of Edo, Ten Learned Studies of Women and Ten Types of Women's Physiognomies (print series begun)

## Births

* February 19 – Lucie Ingemann, née Mandix, Danish religious painter (died 1868)
* February 24 – István Ferenczy, Hungarian sculptor (died 1856)
* June 16 – John Linnell, English landscape painter (died 1882)
* June 26 – Christian Albrecht Jensen, Danish painter (died 1870)
* August 9
** Alvan Fisher, United States landscape and genre painter (died 1863)
** Charles-François Lebœuf, French sculptor (died 1865)
* August 12 – Hans Harder, Danish painter and drawing master (died 1873)
* August 30 – Alexis Joseph Depaulis, French sculptor and medallist (died 1867)
* September 1 – Chester Harding, American portrait painter (died 1866)
* October 31 – Jean-Baptiste Roman, French sculptor (died 1835)
* December 17 – George Hayter, English portrait painter (died 1871)
* December 20 – Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French designer and painter, especially of military subjects (died 1845)
* date unknown
** Arnoldus Bloemers, Dutch painter of flowers, fruit, and animals (died 1844)
** Peter Andreas Brandt, Norwegian painter and illustrator (died 1862)
** Carl Georg Enslen, Austrian painter (died 1866)
** Ferdinand Wolfgang Flachenecker, German painter (died 1847)
** James Arthur O'Connor, Irish landscape painter (died 1841)
** James Pollard, British painter and aquatint engraver especially of coach, fox hunting and equine scenes (died 1867)
** Ulla Stenberg, Swedish damask maker (died 1858)
** William Guy Wall, American painter of Irish birth (died 1864)
** Thomas Wyon, English engraver of medals (died 1817)
** 1792/1793: George Mills, British sculptor, engraver and medallist (died 1824)

## Deaths

* February 1 – Nicolas-Guy Brenet, French historical painter (born 1728)
* February 21 – Jacob Schnebbelie, English illustrator and engraver (born 1760)
* February 23 – Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter, specializing in portraits (born 1723)
* March 3 – Robert Adam, Scottish-born architect and interior designer (born 1728)
* May 7 – Aert Schouman, Dutch painter, glass engraver and art dealer (born 1710)
* October 29 – Anna Maria Mengs, German portrait painter in pastel and miniature (born 1751)
* December 4 – Antonio Ponz, Spanish painter (born 1725)
* December 12 – William Hoare, English painter, noted for his pastels (born 1707)
* December 17 – Gottlieb Welté, German etcher and landscape painter (born 1745/1749)
* date unknown
** Francesco Appiani, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Rome and Perugia (born 1704)
** Manuel de la Cruz, Spanish painter (born 1750)
** Pietro Scalvini, Italian painter (born 1718)
** Katsukawa Shunshō, Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style (born 1726)