# 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.
* The Society of Painters in Water Colours, predecessor of the Royal Watercolour Society, is founded in London, UK, by William Frederick Wells.

## Works

* John Constable – The Bridges Family
* 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
** Portrait of Sir John Moore
** Portrait of Sarah Siddons
* Louis-François Lejeune
** The Battle of Aboukir
** The Battle of Lodi
* Robert Lefèvre – Portrait of Carle Vernet
* Philip James de Loutherbourg – Banditti in a Landscape
* Stepan Shchukin – Portrait of Andreyan Zakharov (approximate date)
* Gilbert Stuart – Portrait of Dolley Madison
* George Stubbs – Ambrosio, a bay stallion, the property of Thomas Haworth
* John Vanderlyn – The Death of Jane McCrea
* Benjamin West
** Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes
** Thetis Bringing the Armor to Achilles (first version)
* David Wilkie
** Pitlessie Fair
** William Chalmers-Bethune, his wife Isabella Morison and their Daughter Isabella

## 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

* January 28 – Nils Schillmark, Swedish-born painter who lived and worked in Finland (born 1745)
* 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 – Charles Grignion the Younger, British history and portrait painter and engraver (born 1754)
* 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)
* November 18 – Charles-Étienne Gaucher, French engraver (born 1740)
* 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
** Peter Haas, German-Danish engraver (born 1754)
** Liu Yong, Chinese politician and calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty (born 1719)