1804 In Art

The year 1804 in art involved some significant artistic events and new works.

Events

*Sculptor Pompeo Marchesi wins a scholarship to study in Rome under Antonio Canova.
*Society of Painters in Water Colours, predecessor of the Royal Watercolour Society, founded in London by William Frederick Wells.

Works

*Johann Friedrich Dryander – ''French troops before Saint-Jean-lès-Sarrebruck''
*Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – ''Dominique Jean Larrey''
*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''
*Orest Kiprensky – '' Portrait of Adam Shvabler''
*Thomas Lawrence – '' Portrait of Caroline of Brunswick''
*Stepan Shchukin – Portrait of Andreyan Zakharov (approximate date)
*George Stubbs – '' Ambrosio, a bay stallion, the property of Thomas Haworth''
*Benjamin West
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Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes
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**'' Thetis Bringing the Armor to Achilles'' (first version)
*David Wilkie
**'' Pitlessie Fair''
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William Chalmers-Bethune, his wife Isabella Morison and their Daughter Isabella
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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, Austrian painter (died 1871)
* February 21 – Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers, French painter and caricaturist (died 1859)
* March 2 – Auguste Raffet, French illustrator and lithographer (died 1860)
* March 8 – Alvan Clark, American astronomer, telescope maker, portrait painter and engraver (died 1887)
* March 15 – Georgiana McCrae, English-born Australian painter (died 1890)
* April 4 – Andrew Nicholl, Irish painter (died 1886)
* April 16 – James Fahey, English landscape painter (died 1885)
* August 30 – Jacques Raymond Brascassat, French animal painter (died 1867)
* September 1 – John Scarlett Davis, English painter (died 1845)
* September 18 – John Steell, Scottish portrait sculptor (died 1891)
* September 27 – Anna McNeill Whistler, "Whistler's Mother" (died 1881)
* December 16 – Adèle Kindt, Belgian portrait and genre painter (died 1893)
* December 19 – Fitz Henry Lane, American luminist painter (died 1865)
* date unknown
** Chō Kōran, Japanese poet and '' nanga'' artist (died 1879)
** John Caspar Wild, Swiss-born American painter and lithographer (died 1846)

Deaths

* February 27 - Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy, French painter primarily of naval scenes (born 1736)
* March 3 – Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian painter and printmaker in etching (born 1727)
* March 5 – Francis Sartorius, English painter of horses (born 1734)
* March 18 – Louis Jean Desprez, French painter and architect (born 1743)
* June 2 – Cornelius Høyer, Danish miniature painter (born 1741)
* October 29 – George Morland, English painter of animals and rustic scenes (born 1763)
* November 4 – Nicola Peccheneda, Italian painter (born 1725)
* November 5 – August Friedrich Oelenhainz, German painter (born 1745)
* December 12 – John Boydell, English engraver (born 1720)
* December 17 – Pierre Julien, French sculptor (born 1731)
* December 24 – Moses Haughton the elder, English designer, engraver and painter of portraits and still life (born 1734)
* date unknown
** Charles-Étienne Gaucher, French engraver (born 1740)
** Charles Grignion the Younger, British history and portrait painter and engraver (born 1754)
** Peter Haas, German-Danish engraver (born 1754)
** Nils Schillmark, Swedish-born painter who lived and worked in Finland (born 1745)
** Liu Yong, Chinese politician and calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty (born 1719)

References

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Years of the 19th century in art
1800s in art