1884 in art

• February 2 – First annual exhibition of Les XX opens at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.{{cite book|last=State|first=Paul F.|title=Historical dictionary of Brussels|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2004|page=409|isbn=978-0-8108-5075-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LErne3-05qoC&dq=%22les+xx%22&pg=PA177|accessdate=2009-12-22}} Artists invited to show in addition to members of the group include Auguste Rodin, James McNeill Whistler and Max Liebermann.{{cite book|last=Giedion|first=Sigfried|title=Raum, Zeit, Architektur: Die Entstehung einer neuen Tradition|publisher=Springer|year=2007|pages=536|isbn=978-3-7643-5407-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JBahLeoK4msC&dq=maus+xx&pg=PA208|accessdate=2009-12-22|language=German}}
• March – Theo van Gogh starts buying and selling Impressionist works, beginning with a painting by Pissarro.{{cite journal|first=John|last=Rewald|title=Theo van Gogh, Goupil, and the Impressionists|journal=Gazette des Beaux-Arts|year=1973|pages=1–107}}
• April – Camille Pissarro moves to Éragny-sur-Epte.
• May 15–July 15 – Groupe des Artistes Indépendants stages the first officially sanctioned open exhibition of contemporary art in Paris.
• July 29 – Société des Artistes Indépendants established in Paris under the leadership of Albert Dubois-Pillet.
• August 30 – Austrian painter Marianne Preindlsberger marries English painter Adrian Scott Stokes.

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{{See also|Category:1884 paintings|Category:1884 sculptures}}

• Michael Ancher – Portrait of my wife, the painter Anna Ancher
• Henry Baerer – Ludwig van Beethoven (bronze sculpture, version for Central Park, New York City)
• Marie Bashkirtseff – The Meeting
• Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz – A Negress
• Jules Breton – The Song of the Lark
• Gustave Caillebotte
• Houses at Trouville
• Man at his bath
• Man wearing a blouse
• The Yellow Fields at Gennevilliers
• Gustaf Cederström – Funeral procession of King Charles XII
• Albert Edelfelt – Boys Playing on the Shore
• Daniel Chester French – John Harvard (bronze sculpture)
• Alfred Gilbert – sculptures
• Icarus
• Study of a Head
• Félix Resurrección Hidalgo – Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho
• Henry Holiday – Dante and Beatrice
• John Lavery – [https://web.archive.org/web/20131004215917/http://www.nationalgallery.ie/en/Collection/Irelands_Favourite_Painting/Final_Lavery/Final_Bridge_at_Grez.aspx On the Bridge at Grez]
• Frederic Leighton – Cymon and Iphigenia
• John Seymour Lucas – After Culloden, Rebel Hunting
• Juan Luna – Spoliarium
• Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier – The Siege of Paris in 1870
• John Everett Millais – [http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/john-everett-millais/message-from-the-sea Message from the Sea]
• Albert Joseph Moore – Reading Aloud
• Edvard Munch – Morning
• John O'Connor – From Pentonville Road looking west, evening
• Anna Petersen – Breton Girl Looking After Plants in the Hothouse
• Medardo Rosso – Flesh of Others (wax sculpture)
• John Singer Sargent
• Auguste Rodin
• Portrait of Madame X
• Giovanni Segantini - The Bad Mothers
• Georges-Pierre Seurat – Bathers at Asnières
• Alfred Sisley – The Port of Moret-sur-Loing
• Marie Spartali Stillman – Madonna Pietra degli Scrovigni
• Marianne Stokes – Reflection
• Abbott Handerson Thayer – The Sisters
• Félix Vallotton - Study of Buttocks{{Cite news |last=Farago |first=Jason |date=2023-04-20 |title=‘Rear View,’ a Show About Butts, Is Forward Thinking |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/arts/design/lgdr-gallery-art-butts.html |access-date=2023-05-12 |issn=0362-4331}} (c.)
• Vasily Vereshchagin – Blowing from Guns in British India
• Jan Voerman – Days of Mourning

• February 5 – Vlastislav Hofman, Czech painter and architect (died 1964)
• February 12
• Marie Vassilieff, Russian-French painter (died 1957){{cite book|first1=John E.|last1=Bowlt|first2=Nicoletta|last2=Misler|first3=Sammlung|last3=Thyssen-Bornemisza|title=Twentieth-Century Russian and East European Painting: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection|location=Stuttgart|publisher=Klett-Cotta|year=1994|page=320|isbn=978-3-60876-258-7}}
• Max Beckmann, German painter (died 1950)
• May 11 – Stanley Anderson, English engraver (died 1966)
• June 19 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French writer and artist (died 1974)
• June 25 – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-born French art dealer (died 1979)
• June 30 – Jovan Bijelić, Serbian painter (died 1964).
• July 7 – André Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter and graphic artist (died 1974)
• July 12 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian-born painter and sculptor (died 1920)
• September 1 – Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian painter (died 1961)
• October 6 – MacDonald Gill, English designer (died 1947)
• November 14 – Derwent Lees, Australian artist (died 1931)
• December 12 (November 30 O.S.) – Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (died 1967)
• December 15 – Eugeniusz Zak, Belarusian-born painter (died 1926)
• December 17 – Waldo Peirce, American painter (died 1970)

• January 9 – Vito D'Ancona, Italian painter (born 1825)
• January 28 – Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter (born 1843)
• June 13 – Anton Zwengauer, German painter (born 1810)
• June 19 – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter and etcher (born 1803)
• October 1 – Theodor Martens, German painter (born 1822)
• October 3 – Hans Makart, Austrian painter and designer (born 1840)
• October 22 – Treffle Berthlaume, Québécois sculptor (born 1803)
• October 31 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Ukrainian-French painter, of TB (born 1858)
• date unknown
• Stanisław Chlebowski, Polish painter, especially of oriental themes (born 1835)
• Lina von Perbandt, German landscape painter (born 1836)
• Carlo Randanini, Italian painter (year of birth unknown)

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