1804 in art

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The year 1804 in art involved some significant events.

Events

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

Works

• Thomas Douglas Guest – Madonna and Child.

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

painter (d. 1885)

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

Deaths

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