1784 in art

Events

• 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 – :File:Ascensión de un Montgolfier en Aranjuez.jpg|Ascent of Monsieur Bouclé's Montgolfier Balloon in the Gardens of Aranjuez
• Jacques-Louis David – Oath of the Horatii
• Thomas Gainsborough
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• Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Two portraits of the Comte de Vaudreuil
• Charles Willson Peale
• * :File:General Benjamin Lincoln-restored.jpg|General Benjamin Lincoln
• * :File:Washington, Lafayette & Tilghman at Yorktown.jpg|Washington, Lafayette & Tilghman at Yorktown
• George Romney – Sir William Hamilton
• Gilbert Stuart – :File:Joshua Reynolds by Gilbert Stuart 1784.jpeg|Portrait of Sir 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
• 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
• * Simon Fokke, Dutch designer, etcher and engraver
• * John Foldsone, English portrait painter
• * Stefano Torelli, Italian painter of altar-pieces and ceiling decorations