1792 in art

• Ozias Humphry is appointed Portrait Painter in Crayons (i.e., pastels) to King George III of Great Britain.{{cite book|title=Claiming the Stones/naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity|isbn=9780892366736|publisher=Getty Research Institute|year=2002|page=65}}
• 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").{{cite book|title=Nationalmuseum Stockholm|publisher=Scala Books|year=1995|isbn=9781857590487|page=10}}

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• Richard Cosway – Portrait miniature of George, Prince of Wales
• Jacques-Louis David – Portrait of Madame Marie-Louise Trudaine (unfinished){{cite web|url=https://www.thehistoryofart.org/jacques-louis-david/portrait-of-madame-marie-louise-trudaine/|title=Portrait of Madame Marie-Louise Trudaine|author=Tom Gurney|website=History of Art|access-date=23 January 2025}}
• 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
• [http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/stubbs-a-couple-of-foxhounds-t01705 A Couple of Foxhounds]
• [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/rhinoceros-146046 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)

• 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){{cite book|author1=P. & D. Colnaghi & Co|author2=John Linnell|title=A Loan Exhibition of Drawings, Watercolours and Paintings by John Linnell and His Circle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NV9IAQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Lund Humphries|page=1787}}
• 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){{cite book|author=Peter Mitchell|title=Great Flower Painters: Four Centuries of Floral Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_fM3AQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Overlook Press|isbn=978-0-87951-008-4|page=52}}
• 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){{cite book|author=Samuel Redgrave|title=A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers and Ornamentists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_hsGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA494|year=1878|publisher=Bell|pages=494}}
• 1792/1793: George Mills, British sculptor, engraver and medallist (died 1824)

• 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){{cite book|author=Joseph Farington|title=Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=krZNAAAAYAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Pallas Athene|isbn=978-1-84368-001-7|page=151}}
• March 3 – Robert Adam, Scottish-born architect and interior designer (born 1728){{cite book|author=Frank N. Magill|title=The 17th and 18th Centuries: Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HaHdAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA7|date=13 September 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-92414-0|pages=7}}
• 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){{cn|date=January 2025}}
• December 4 – Antonio Ponz, Spanish painter (born 1725){{cite book|title=The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge|url=https://archive.org/details/pennycyclopaedi14unkngoog|year=1840|publisher=Charles Knight|pages=[https://archive.org/details/pennycyclopaedi14unkngoog/page/n405 397]}}
• 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){{cite book|author=Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)|title=Goya and His Times: Royal Academy Winter Exhibition 1963-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=khPqAAAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Royal Academy|page=13}}
• Pietro Scalvini, Italian painter (born 1718){{cite book|title=The Medal|publisher=British Art Medal Society|year=2001|page=27}}
• Katsukawa Shunshō, Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style (born 1726)

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