1704 in art
# 1704 in art

Events from the year 1704 in art.

## 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)
