1604 in art

Events from the year 1604 in art.

Events

 * Robert Peake the Elder is appointed picture maker to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.

Publications

 * Karel van Mander - Schilder-boeck

Paintings

 * Annibale Carracci (approximate date)
 * Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome)
 * The Martyrdom of St. Stephen (The Louvre, Paris)
 * Monsignor Agucchi (York Art Gallery, England)
 * Self-portrait (Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg)
 * Caravaggio
 * John the Baptist (Kansas City)
 * John the Baptist (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome)
 * The Crowning with Thorns (Prato)

Births

 * February 6 - Jean Varin, French sculptor and engraver (died 1672)
 * July 8 - Christiaen van Couwenbergh, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1667)
 * September 21 - Angelo Michele Colonna, Italian painter of frescoes (died 1687)
 * date unknown
 * François Anguier, French sculptor (died 1669)
 * Mario Balassi, Italian painter (died 1667)
 * Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli, Italian painter, active in Brescia (died 1656)
 * Charles Beaubrun, French portrait painter (died 1692)
 * Bartolommeo Bianco, Italian architect, engineer, and painter (died 1656)
 * Luigi Baccio del Bianco, Italian architect, engineer, scenic designer and painter (died 1657)
 * Pierre Daret, French portrait painter and engraver (died 1678)
 * Chöying Dorje, 10th Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and a painter and sculptor (died 1674)
 * Gijsbert d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter of barnyard fowl (died 1653), father of Melchior d'Hondecoeter.
 * Johann Anton Eismann, Austrian painter (died 1698)
 * Giovanni Battista Michelini, Italian painter of religious and mythological subjects (died 1655)
 * Jan Baptist van Heil, Flemish painter (died 1688)
 * Cheng Zhengkui, Chinese landscape painter and poet (died 1670)
 * probable
 * Jan Boeckhorst, German-born Flemish Baroque painter (died 1668)
 * Viviano Codazzi, Italian architectural painter (died 1670)

Deaths

 * March 1 - Leonhard Baumhauer, German sculptor (born 1535)
 * date unknown
 * Pier Angelo Basili, Italian painter born in Gubbio (born 1550)
 * Ottavio Semini, Italian painter born and trained in Genoa (born 1530)
 * probable - William Rogers, English engraver (born 1545)