title: 1704 in art
text: # 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)
  