1804 in art

• Sculptor Pompeo Marchesi wins a scholarship to study in Rome under Antonio Canova.{{Catholic|wstitle=Pompeo Marchesi}}
• The Society of Painters in Water Colours, predecessor of the Royal Watercolour Society, is founded in London, UK, by William Frederick Wells.{{cite book|author=Scott Wilcox|title=Victorian landscape watercolors|publisher=Hudson Hills|year=1992|isbn=9781555950712|page=18}}

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• John Constable – The Bridges Family
• Johann Friedrich Dryander – French troops before Saint-Jean-lès-Sarrebruck
• Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Dominique Jean Larrey
• Francisco Goya – Portrait of María Tomasa Palafox, Marquesa of Villafranca
• Antoine-Jean Gros – Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa{{cite book|author=Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby|title=Extremities : painting empire in post-revolutionary France|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2002|isbn=9780300088878|page=65}}
• Thomas Douglas Guest – Madonna and Child
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Bonaparte, First Consul
• Orest Kiprensky – Portrait of Adam Shvabler{{cite book|author=Richard Stites|title=Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2005|isbn=9780300137576|page=306}}
• Thomas Lawrence
• Portrait of Caroline of Brunswick{{cite book|author=Jeremy Black|title=The Hanoverians: The History of a Dynasty|publisher=A&C Black|year=2007|page=113}}
• Portrait of Sir John Moore{{cite book|author=Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher|title=Historical Portraits, 1700–1850, Volume 2|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1919|page=38}}
• Portrait of Sarah Siddons
• Louis-François Lejeune
• The Battle of Aboukir
• The Battle of Lodi
• Robert Lefèvre – Portrait of Carle Vernet{{cite book|author=Anthony Halliday|title=Facing the Public: Portraiture in the Aftermath of the French Revolution|publisher=Manchester University Press|year=2000|pages=161-2}}
• Philip James de Loutherbourg – Banditti in a Landscapehttps://www.rct.uk/collection/400217/banditti-in-a-landscape
• Stepan Shchukin – Portrait of Andreyan Zakharov (approximate date)
• Gilbert Stuart – Portrait of Dolley MadisonAllgor, Catherine. Parlor Politics: In which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government. University of Virginia Press, 2000. p.53
• George Stubbs – Ambrosio, a bay stallion, the property of Thomas Haworth
• John Vanderlyn – The Death of Jane McCrea
• Benjamin West
• [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cicero_Discovering_the_Tomb_of_Archimedes_by_Benjamin_West.jpeg Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes]
• Thetis Bringing the Armor to Achilles (first version){{Cite web|url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/171621|title = Thetis Bringing the Armor to Achilles | LACMA Collections}}
• David Wilkie
• Pitlessie Fair
• [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/william-chalmers-bethune-17441807-his-wife-isobel-morison-17601850-and-their-daughter-isabella-maxwell-morison-17951818-210850 William Chalmers-Bethune, his wife Isabella Morison and their Daughter Isabella]

{{see also|Category:1804 sculptures}}

The Prix de Rome had been expanded in 1803 to include musical composition as a category, but was not awarded in 1804.

• Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
• Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, music: (none awarded).

• January 21 – Moritz von Schwind, Austrian painter (died 1871){{1911|wstitle=Schwind, Moritz von|volume=24||pages=394–395}}
• February 21 – Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers, French painter and caricaturist (died 1859)Bellier de La Chavignerie, Émile and Auvray, Louis (1885). [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k113384f/f589 Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'École française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours], Vol. 2, p. 588. Librairie Renouard {{in lang|fr}}
• March 2 – Auguste Raffet, French illustrator and lithographer (died 1860){{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Raffet, Denis Auguste Marie|volume=22|page=813}}
• March 8 – Alvan Clark, American astronomer, telescope maker, portrait painter and engraver (died 1887){{Cite DAB|title=Clark, Alvan|author=Raymond S. Dugan|year=1930}}
• March 15 – Georgiana McCrae, English-born Australian painter (died 1890){{Cite web|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mccrae-georgiana-huntly-2392|title=McCrae, Georgiana Huntly|last=Cowper|first=Norman |website=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |access-date=21 June 2017}}
• April 4 – Andrew Nicholl, Irish painter (died 1886){{cite journal|last1=Anglesea|first1=Martyn|title=Andrew Nicholl and His Patrons in Ireland and Ceylon|journal=Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review|date=Summer 1982|volume=71|issue=282|pages=130–151|jstor=30090424}}
• April 16 – James Fahey, English landscape painter (died 1885){{DNB|wstitle=Fahey, James}}
• August 30 – Jacques Raymond Brascassat, French animal painter (died 1867)
• September 1 – John Scarlett Davis, English painter (died 1845)
• September 18 – John Steell, Scottish portrait sculptor (died 1891)
• September 27 – Anna McNeill Whistler, "Whistler's Mother" (died 1881)
• December 16 – Adèle Kindt, Belgian portrait and genre painter (died 1893)
• December 19 – Fitz Henry Lane, American luminist painter (died 1865)
• date unknown
• Chō Kōran, Japanese poet and nanga artist (died 1879)
• John Caspar Wild, Swiss-born American painter and lithographer (died 1846)

• January 28 – Nils Schillmark, Swedish-born painter who lived and worked in Finland (born 1745){{BLF|2527|namn=Schillmark, Nils}}
• February 27 - Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy, French painter primarily of naval scenes (born 1736)
• March 3 – Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian painter and printmaker in etching (born 1727){{cite book|author1=Jane Martineau|author2=Andrew Robison|title=The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century|publisher=Yale University Press|year=1994|isbn=9780300061864|page=504}}
• March 5 – Francis Sartorius, English painter of horses (born 1734)
• March 18 – Louis Jean Desprez, French painter and architect (born 1743)
• June 2 – Cornelius Høyer, Danish miniature painter (born 1741)
• October – Charles Grignion the Younger, British history and portrait painter and engraver (born 1754){{cite book|author1=Edward Edwards|author2=Horace Walpole|title=Anecdotes of Painters, who Have Resided Or Been Born in England: With Critical Remarks on Their Productions|publisher=Leigh and Sotheby|year=1808|page=288}}
• October 29 – George Morland, English painter of animals and rustic scenes (born 1763)
• November 4 – Nicola Peccheneda, Italian painter (born 1725){{cn|date=January 2025}}
• November 5 – August Friedrich Oelenhainz, German painter (born 1745){{cite web|url=https://recherche.sik-isea.ch/de/sik:person-4027766/in/sikisea/actor?0.0.type=actor&0.0.@id=sik:person-4027766&0.type=actor|title=Friedrich Oelenhainz|website=SIKART|language=de|access-date=28 January 2025}}
• November 18 – Charles-Étienne Gaucher, French engraver (born 1740){{cite web|url=https://www.liechtensteincollections.at/en/artists/charles-etienne-gaucher|title=Charles Etienne Gaucher|website=Liechtenstein Collections|access-date=14 August 2024}}
• December 12 – John Boydell, English engraver (born 1720)Timothy Clayton (2004/2013), [https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-3120 Boydell, John], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• December 17 – Pierre Julien, French sculptor (born 1731){{cite book|author=Michael Worley|title=Pierre Julien: Sculptor to Queen Marie-Antoinette|year=2003|isbn=9781469792538|page=142}}
• December 24 – Moses Haughton the elder, English designer, engraver and painter of portraits and still life (born 1734){{DNB||first=Lionel Henry|last=Cust|wstitle=Haughton, Moses (1734-1804)|volume=25|pages=}}
• date unknown
• Peter Haas, German-Danish engraver (born 1754)
• Liu Yong, Chinese politician and calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty (born 1719)

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