1784 in art

Events from the year 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 – 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
 * John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire and his wife Caroline Connolly
 * Frances Browne, Mrs John Douglas
 * 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

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)
 * 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)
 * 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)