1784 in art
Events from the year 1784 in art.
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Events
- 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
- Jacques-Louis David – Oath of the Horatii (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Two portraits of the Comte de Vaudreuil
- Charles Willson Peale
- General Benjamin Lincoln
- Washington, Lafayette & Tilghman at Yorktown (the "Annapolis portrait")
- George Romney – Sir William Hamilton
- Gilbert Stuart – Portrait of Sir 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)[2]
- 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)
- August 14 – Nathaniel Hone, British portrait painter (born 1718)
- September 7 – Andrea Casali – Italian painter of the Rococo period (born 1705)[3]
- 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)
- Simon Fokke, Dutch designer, etcher and engraver (born 1712)
- John Foldsone, English portrait painter (born unknown)
- Stefano Torelli, Italian painter of altar-pieces and ceiling decorations (born 1712)
References
- Conrad, Henry Clay (1908). History of the State of Delaware. Published by the author. p. 1119.
- "Buson (Japanese artist and poet) – Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2013-02-17.
- Ingamells, John (2004). "Casali, Andrea". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4849. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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