1804 in art

The year 1804 in art involved some significant events.

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

*March 8 - Alvan Clark, American astronomer, telescope maker, portrait painter and engraver (d. 1887)
*December 19 - Fitz Hugh Lane, luminist painter (d. 1865)
* December 16 - Adèle Kindt, Belgian painter (d. 1884)
* Andrew Nicholl, Irish painter (d. 1886)
* Jacques Raymond Brascassat, painter (d. 1867)
* Maurycy Gottlieb, painter (d. 1879)
* Moritz von Schwind, painter (d. 1871)
* John Caspar Wild, painter and lithographer (d. 1846)
* Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, illustrator and lithographer (d. 1860)
* Anna McNeill Whistler, "Whistler's Mother" (d. 1881)
* Georgiana McCrae, painter (d. 1890)

Deaths

*March 18 - Louis Jean Desprez, painter and architect (b. 1743)
*December - John Boydell, engraver (b. 1720)
* George Morland - English painter of animals and rustic scenes (b. 1763)
* Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo - Italian painter and printmaker in etching (b. 1727)
* Friedrich Ölenhainz - Austrian painter (b. 1745)