title: 1784 in art
text: # 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)
  