1704 in art

Events from the year 1704 in art.

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Works

• Paolo Alessandro Maffei – Engraving of Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus
• Sebastiano Ricci
  • Crucifixion with Virgin, John the Evangelist and Carlo Borromeo (Uffizi, Florence)
  • Procolo, Peasant Detention (Bergamo Cathedral)

Births

• January 17 (bapt.) – William Verelst, English painter of portraits, still lifes and birds (died 1752)
• January 24 – Francesco Appiani, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Rome and Perugia (died 1792)
• February 15 – Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor (died 1778)
• April 4 – Andreas Brünniche, Danish portrait painter (died 1769)
• May/June – Johann Baptist Straub – German Rococo sculptor (died 1784)
• August 2 – Robert Gillow, English furniture designer (died 1772)
• September 5 – Maurice Quentin de La Tour, French Rococo portraitist working primarily in pastels (died 1788)
• date unknown
  • Isaac Basire, English engraver and head of family of engravers (died 1768)
  • Gaetano Lapis, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (died 1776)
  • Pierre L'Enfant, French painter (died 1787)
  • Johann Georg Platzer, Austrian painter of primarily historical and mythical scenes (died 1761)
  • 1704/1705: Jan Jerzy Plersch, Polish sculptor of German origin (died 1774)

Deaths

• February 3 – Antonio Molinari, Venetian painter of mythology and religious figures (born 1655)
• August – Francis Barlow, British painter, etcher, and illustrator (born 1626)
• October 1 – Cornelis Dusart, Dutch genre painter, draftsman, and printmaker (born 1660)
• date unknown
  • Carlo Bolognini, Italian painter of quadratura (born 1678)
  • Matias de Arteaga, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1630)
  • Alonso del Arco, Spanish painter (born 1635)
  • Egbert van Heemskerck, Dutch painter, also known as Egbert van Heemskerck the Elder (born 1634)
  • Filippo Gherardi, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1643)
  • Giovanni Marracci, Italian painter (born 1637)
  • Cosimo Ulivelli, Italian who painted frescoes for the Santissima Annunziata church (born 1625)