1804 in art

The year 1804 in art involved some significant events.

Events

• Sculptor Pompeo Marchesi wins a scholarship to study in Rome under Antonio Canova.

Works

The Marquesa of Villafranca, painted by Goya

• Johann Friedrich Dryander – French troops before Saint-Jean-lès-Sarrebruck
• Francisco Goya – Portrait of María Tomasa Palafox, Marquesa of Villafranca
• Antoine-Jean Gros – Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa
• Thomas Douglas Guest – Madonna and Child
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Bonaparte, First Consul
• Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Caroline of Brunswick
• Benjamin West – Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes

Awards

The Prix de Rome had been expanded in 1803 to include musical composition as a category, but was not awarded in 1804.

• Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
• Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, music: (none awarded).

Births

• January 21 – Moritz von Schwind, painter (died 1871)
• March 2 – Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, illustrator and lithographer (died 1860)
• March 8 – Alvan Clark, American astronomer, telescope maker, portrait painter and engraver (died 1887)
• March 15 – Georgiana McCrae, painter (died 1890)
• April 16 - James Fahey, landscape

painter (died 1885)

• August 30 – Jacques Raymond Brascassat, painter (died 1867)
• September 1 – John Scarlett Davis, English painter (died 1845)
• September 27 – Anna McNeill Whistler, "Whistler's Mother" (died 1881)
• December 16 – Adèle Kindt, Belgian painter (died 1884)
• December 19 – Fitz Hugh Lane, luminist painter (died 1865)
• date unknown
  • Andrew Nicholl, Irish painter (died 1886)
  • John Caspar Wild, painter and lithographer (died 1846)

Deaths

• March 3 – Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian painter and printmaker in etching (born 1727)
• March 5 - Francis Sartorius, painter of horses (born 1734)
• March 18 – Louis Jean Desprez, painter and architect (born 1743)
• June 2 – Cornelius Høyer, Danish miniature painter (died 1804)
• October 29 – George Morland, English painter of animals and rustic scenes (born 1763)
• November 4 – Nicola Peccheneda, Italian painter (born 1725)
• November 5 - FIXFIXAugust Friedrich Oelenhainz, painter (born 1745)
• December – John Boydell, engraver (born 1720)
• December 17 – Pierre Julien, French sculptor (born 1731)