1682 in art

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)
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- Shen Quan, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (died 1760)
- John Wootton, English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes (died 1764)

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