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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 After a dispute Thomas Gainsborough's paintings are withdrawn and he refuses to exhibit at the academy again for the remainder of his career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.[1]
- date unknown – Thomas Chippendale, the younger, begins exhibiting his paintings at the Royal Academy.
Works
- John Bacon – seated sculpture of Sir William Blackstone (Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England)
- James Barry – The Progress of Human Culture (completed series in Great Room of Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in London)
- 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 (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
- Jean Germain Drouais – Christ and the Canaanite Woman[2]
- Joseph Duplessis –Portrait of Joseph-Marie Vien
- Henry Fuseli – Lady Macbeth Sleepwalking
- Thomas Gainsborough
- 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[3]
- Charles Willson Peale
- General Benjamin Lincoln
- Washington, Lafayette & Tilghman at Yorktown (the "Annapolis portrait")
- John Francis Rigaud – Samson and Delilah
- George Romney – Sir William Hamilton
- Gilbert Stuart – Portrait of Joshua Reynolds
- John Webber – Death of Cook
- Johann Zoffany – Portrait of Claud Alexander with his brother Boyd, attended by an Indian servant
Awards
Births
- January 21 – Peter De Wint, English landscape painter (died 1849)
- February 29 – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer (died 1864)
- May 4 – Rubens Peale, American artist and museum director (died 1865)
- June 4 – François Rude, French sculptor (died 1855)
- July 11 – Paul Joseph Gabriël, Dutch painter and sculptor (died 1833)
- September 23 – Peter von Cornelius, German painter (died 1867)
- October – Sarah Biffen, disabled English painter (died 1850)
- November 3 – Antonín Mánes, Czech painter (died 1843)
- November 21 – Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg, Finnish painter (died 1833)
- November 28 – Claude Victor de Boissieu, French artist and local politician (died 1868)
- December 26 – Antoni Brodowski, Polish Neo-classicist painter and pedagogue (died 1832)
- date unknown
- John Cox Dillman Engleheart, English miniature painter (died 1862)
- William Essex, English enamel-painter (died 1869)
- Charles Gough, English landscape artist (died 1805)
- Ernestine Panckoucke, French botanical illustrator and flower painter (died 1860)
- Stepan Pimenov, Russian sculptor (died 1833)
- Jacopo Tumicelli, Italian portrait miniature painter (died 1825)
Deaths
- January 17 – Yosa Buson, Japanese poet and painter (born 1716)[4]
- April 10 – Simon Fokke, Dutch designer, etcher and engraver (born 1712)[5]
- May 29 – George Barret Sr., Irish landscape artist best known for his portraits of the British countryside (born 1730)
- July 15 – Johann Baptist Straub, German Rococo sculptor (born 1704)
- August 10 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish portrait-painter (born 1713)[6]
- August 14 – Nathaniel Hone, British portrait painter (born 1718)
- September 7 – Andrea Casali – Italian painter of the Rococo period (born 1705)[7]
- September 15 – Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, French painter (born 1735)
- October 29 – Giuseppe Zais, Italian painter of landscapes (vedutisti) (born 1709)
- date unknown
- Antonio Beltrami, Italian painter (born 1724)
- Giuseppe Bottani, Italian painter (born 1717)
- Stefano Torelli, Italian painter of altar-pieces and ceiling decorations (born 1712)
- probable – John Foldsone, English portrait painter (born unknown)[8]
References
- Conrad, Henry Clay (1908). History of the State of Delaware. Published by the author. p. 1119.
- https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010066869
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:977
- "Buson (Japanese artist and poet) – Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2013-02-17.
- "Simon Fokke". RKD. Retrieved 14 January 2026.
- One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ramsay, Allan". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 878–879.
- Ingamells, John (2004). "Casali, Andrea". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4849. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.