1784 in art

Events from the year 1784 in art. == Events == April 26 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1784 opens at Somerset House in London. After a dispute Thomas Gainsborough's paintings are withdrawn and he refuses to exhibit at the academy again for the remainder of his career July 30 – Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller is elected to the Académie royale de peinture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 Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil Jacques-Louis David – Oath of the Horatii (Musée du Louvre, Paris) Jean Germain Drouais – Christ and the Canaanite Woman Joseph Duplessis –Portrait of Joseph-Marie Vien Henry Fuseli – Lady Macbeth Sleepwalking Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of the Earl of Buckinghamshire and his wife Caroline Connolly Frances Browne, Mrs John Douglas The Baillie Family Portrait of Lord Rawdon The Three Eldest Princesses Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Two portraits of the Comte de Vaudreuil Portrait of Charles Alexandre de Calonne Philip James de Loutherbourg – Dovedale in Derbyshire James Northcote – Portrait of Sir Ralph Milbanke Charles Willson Peale General Benjamin Lincoln Washington, Lafayette & Tilghman at Yorktown (the "Annapolis portrait") John Francis Rigaud – Samson and Delilah George Romney – Sir William Hamilton Gilbert Stuart – Portrait of Joshua Reynolds John Webber – Death of Cook Johann Zoffany – Portrait of Claud Alexander with his brother Boyd, attended by an Indian servant == Awards == == 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) April 10 – Simon Fokke, Dutch designer, etcher and engraver (born 1712) 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) Stefano Torelli, Italian painter of altar-pieces and ceiling decorations (born 1712) probable – John Foldsone, English portrait painter (born unknown) == References ==