1704 in art

Works

• Paolo Alessandro Maffei – Engraving of Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus
• Sebastiano Ricci
• * Crucifixion with Virgin, John the Evangelist and Carlo Borromeo
• * ''Procolo, Peasant Detention''

Births

• January 17 – William Verelst, English painter of portraits, still lifes and birds
• January 24 – Francesco Appiani, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Rome and Perugia
• February 15 – Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor
• April 4 – Andreas Brünniche, Danish portrait painter
• May/June – Johann Baptist Straub – German Rococo sculptor
• August 2 – Robert Gillow, English furniture designer
• September 5 – Maurice Quentin de La Tour, French Rococo portraitist working primarily in pastels date unknown
• * Isaac Basire, English engraver and head of family of engravers
• * Gaetano Lapis, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period
• * Pierre L'Enfant, French painter
• * Johann Georg Platzer, Austrian painter of primarily historical and mythical scenes
• * 1704/1705: Jan Jerzy Plersch, Polish sculptor of German origin

Deaths

• February 3 – Antonio Molinari, Venetian painter of mythology and religious figures
• August – Francis Barlow, British painter, etcher, and illustrator
• October 1 – Cornelis Dusart, Dutch genre painter, draftsman, and printmaker date unknown
• * Carlo Bolognini, Italian painter of quadratura
• * Matias de Arteaga, Spanish painter and engraver
• * Alonso del Arco, Spanish painter
• * Egbert van Heemskerck, Dutch painter, also known as Egbert van Heemskerck the Elder
• * Filippo Gherardi, Italian painter of frescoes
• * Giovanni Marracci, Italian painter
• * Cosimo Ulivelli, Italian who painted frescoes for the Santissima Annunziata church