1784 in art

Events

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Works

*Jacques-Louis David - painting "Oath of the Horatii"

Awards

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Births

*June 4 - François Rude, French sculptor (d. 1855)
* John Cox Dillman Engleheart, miniature painter (d. 1862)
* Leo von Klenze - German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer (d. 1864)
* Antoni Brodowski - Polish Neo-classicist painter and pedagogue (d. 1832)
* Peter De Wint - English landscape painter (d. 1849)
* Sarah Biffen - disabled painter (d. 1850)
* Peter von Cornelius - German painter (d. 1867)

Deaths

* August 14 - Nathaniel Hone, portrait painter (b. 1718)
* Yosa Buson - Japanese poet and painter from the Edo period (b. 1716)
* Antonio Beltrami - Italian painter active in the late-Baroque and Neoclassic periods (b. 1724)
* Giuseppe Bottani - Italian painter active in the Baroque period (b. 1717)
* Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, French painter (b. 1735)
* Johann Baptist Straub - German Rococo sculptor (b. 1704)
* George Barret, Sr. - Irish landscape artist best known for his portraits of the British countryside (b. 1730)
* Allan Ramsay - Scottish portrait-painter (b. 1713)
* Giuseppe Zais - Italian painter of landscapes ("vedutisti") (b. 1709)