# 1784 in art

Events from the year 1784 in art.

## Events

* July 30 – Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller is elected to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.
* date unknown – Thomas Chippendale, the younger, begins exhibiting his paintings at the Royal Academy.

## Works

* John Bacon – seated sculpture of Sir William Blackstone (Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England)
* James Barry – The Progress of Human Culture (completed series in Great Room of Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in London)
* Antonio Carnicero – Ascent of Monsieur Bouclé's Montgolfier Balloon in the Gardens of Aranjuez
* Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil
* Jacques-Louis David – Oath of the Horatii (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
* Thomas Gainsborough
** John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire and his wife Caroline Connolly
** Frances Browne, Mrs John Douglas
* Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Two portraits of the Comte de Vaudreuil
* Charles Willson Peale
** General Benjamin Lincoln
** Washington, Lafayette & Tilghman at Yorktown (the "Annapolis portrait")
* George Romney – Sir William Hamilton
* Gilbert Stuart – Portrait of Joshua Reynolds
* John Webber – Death of Cook
* Johann Zoffany – Portrait of Claud Alexander with his brother Boyd, attended by an Indian servant

## Births

* January 21 – Peter De Wint, English landscape painter (died 1849)
* February 29 – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer (died 1864)
* May 4 – Rubens Peale, American artist and museum director (died 1865)
* June 4 – François Rude, French sculptor (died 1855)
* July 11 – Paul Joseph Gabriël, Dutch painter and sculptor (died 1833)
* September 23 – Peter von Cornelius, German painter (died 1867)
* October – Sarah Biffen, disabled English painter (died 1850)
* November 3 – Antonín Mánes, Czech painter (died 1843)
* November 21 – Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg, Finnish painter (died 1833)
* November 28 – Claude Victor de Boissieu, French artist and local politician (died 1868)
* December 26 – Antoni Brodowski, Polish Neo-classicist painter and pedagogue (died 1832)
* date unknown
** John Cox Dillman Engleheart, English miniature painter (died 1862)
** William Essex, English enamel-painter (died 1869)
** Charles Gough, English landscape artist (died 1805)
** Ernestine Panckoucke, French botanical illustrator and flower painter (died 1860)
** Stepan Pimenov, Russian sculptor (died 1833)
** Jacopo Tumicelli, Italian portrait miniature painter (died 1825)

## Deaths

* January 17 – Yosa Buson, Japanese poet and painter (born 1716)
* May 29 – George Barret, Sr., Irish landscape artist best known for his portraits of the British countryside (born 1730)
* July 15 – Johann Baptist Straub, German Rococo sculptor (born 1704)
* August 10 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish portrait-painter (born 1713)
* August 14 – Nathaniel Hone, British portrait painter (born 1718)
* September 7 – Andrea Casali – Italian painter of the Rococo period (born 1705)
* September 15 – Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, French painter (born 1735)
* October 29 – Giuseppe Zais, Italian painter of landscapes (vedutisti) (born 1709)
* date unknown
** Antonio Beltrami, Italian painter (born 1724)
** Giuseppe Bottani, Italian painter (born 1717)
** Simon Fokke, Dutch designer, etcher and engraver (born 1712)
** John Foldsone, English portrait painter (born unknown)
** Stefano Torelli, Italian painter of altar-pieces and ceiling decorations (born 1712)