1804 in art

• 30 April – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1804 opens at Somerset House in London • 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==

, painted by Goya '' by Thomas Lawrence. • Louis-Léopold Boilly – The Studio of Jean-Antoine Houdon • 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 • John Hoppner – Portrait of William Pitt • 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 • John Opie – Master Betty as Young Norval • 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 • J.M.W. Turner – Boats Carrying Out Anchors and Cables to the Dutch Men of War • 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) ==References==