1704 in art



Events from the year 1704 in art.

Works

 * Paolo Alessandro Maffei – Engraving of Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus
 * Sebastiano Ricci
 * Crucifixion with Virgin, John the Evangelist and Carlo Borromeo (Uffizi, Florence)
 * Procolo, Peasant Detention (Bergamo Cathedral)

Births

 * January 17 (bapt.) – William Verelst, English painter of portraits, still lifes and birds (died 1752)
 * January 24 – Francesco Appiani, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Rome and Perugia (died 1792)
 * February 15 – Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor (died 1778)
 * April 4 – Andreas Brünniche, Danish portrait painter (died 1769)
 * May/June – Johann Baptist Straub – German Rococo sculptor (died 1784)
 * August 2 – Robert Gillow, English furniture designer (died 1772)
 * September 5 – Maurice Quentin de La Tour, French Rococo portraitist working primarily in pastels (died 1788)
 * date unknown
 * Isaac Basire, English engraver and head of family of engravers (died 1768)
 * Gaetano Lapis, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (died 1776)
 * Pierre L'Enfant, French painter (died 1787)
 * Johann Georg Platzer, Austrian painter of primarily historical and mythical scenes (died 1761)
 * 1704/1705: Jan Jerzy Plersch, Polish sculptor of German origin (died 1774)

Deaths

 * February 3 – Antonio Molinari, Venetian painter of mythology and religious figures (born 1655)
 * August – Francis Barlow, British painter, etcher, and illustrator (born 1626)
 * October 1 – Cornelis Dusart, Dutch genre  painter, draftsman, and printmaker (born 1660)
 * date unknown
 * Carlo Bolognini, Italian painter of quadratura (born 1678)
 * Matias de Arteaga, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1630)
 * Alonso del Arco, Spanish painter (born 1635)
 * Egbert van Heemskerck, Dutch painter, also known as Egbert van Heemskerck the Elder (born 1634)
 * Filippo Gherardi, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1643)
 * Giovanni Marracci, Italian painter (born 1637)
 * Cosimo Ulivelli, Italian who painted frescoes for the Santissima Annunziata church (born 1625)