1784 in art
Events from the year 1784 in art.
Events
- April 26 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1784 opens at Somerset House in London. After a dispute Thomas Gainsborough's paintings are withdrawn and he refuses to exhibit at the academy again for the remainder of his career
- July 30 – Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller is elected to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.date unknown – Thomas Chippendale, the younger, begins exhibiting his paintings at the Royal Academy.
Works
- John Bacon –
- James Barry – The Progress of Human Culture
- Antonio Carnicero – Ascent of Monsieur Bouclé's Montgolfier Balloon in the Gardens of Aranjuez
- Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil
- Jacques-Louis David – Oath of the Horatii
- Joseph Duplessis –Portrait of Joseph-Marie Vien
- Henry Fuseli – Lady Macbeth Sleepwalking
- Thomas Gainsborough
- * Portrait of the Earl of Buckinghamshire and his wife '
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- * The Baillie Family
- * Portrait of Lord Rawdon
- * The Three Eldest Princesses
- Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
- * Two portraits of the Comte de Vaudreuil
- * Portrait of Charles Alexandre de Calonne
- Philip James de Loutherbourg – Dovedale in Derbyshire
- James Northcote – Portrait of Sir Ralph Milbanke
- Charles Willson Peale
- * General Benjamin Lincoln
- * Washington, Lafayette & Tilghman at Yorktown
- John Francis Rigaud – Samson and Delilah
- George Romney – Sir William Hamilton
- Gilbert Stuart – Portrait of Joshua Reynolds
- John Webber – Death of Cook
- Johann Zoffany – ''''
Awards
*Births
- January 21 – Peter De Wint, English landscape painter
- February 29 – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer
- May 4 – Rubens Peale, American artist and museum director
- June 4 – François Rude, French sculptor
- July 11 – Paul Joseph Gabriël, Dutch painter and sculptor
- September 23 – Peter von Cornelius, German painter
- October – Sarah Biffen, disabled English painter
- November 3 – Antonín Mánes, Czech painter
- November 21 – Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg, Finnish painter
- November 28 – Claude Victor de Boissieu, French artist and local politician
- December 26 – Antoni Brodowski, Polish Neo-classicist painter and pedagogue date unknown
- * John Cox Dillman Engleheart, English miniature painter
- * William Essex, English enamel-painter
- * Charles Gough, English landscape artist
- * Ernestine Panckoucke, French botanical illustrator and flower painter
- * Stepan Pimenov, Russian sculptor
- * Jacopo Tumicelli, Italian portrait miniature painter
Deaths
- January 17 – Yosa Buson, Japanese poet and painter
- April 10 – Simon Fokke, Dutch designer, etcher and engraver
- May 29 – George Barret Sr., Irish landscape artist best known for his portraits of the British countryside
- July 15 – Johann Baptist Straub, German Rococo sculptor
- August 10 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish portrait-painter
- August 14 – Nathaniel Hone, British portrait painter
- September 7 – Andrea Casali – Italian painter of the Rococo period
- September 15 – Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, French painter
- October 29 – Giuseppe Zais, Italian painter of landscapes date unknown
- * Antonio Beltrami, Italian painter
- * Giuseppe Bottani, Italian painter
- * Stefano Torelli, Italian painter of altar-pieces and ceiling decorations probable – John Foldsone, English portrait painter