The year 1804 in art involved some significant artistic events and new works. Events Sculptor Pompeo Marchesi wins a scholarship to study in Rome under Antonio Canova. Society of Painters in Water Colours, predecessor of the Royal Watercolour Society, founded in London by William Frederick Wells. Works Johann Friedrich Dryander – French troops before Saint-Jean-lès-Sarrebruck Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Dominique Jean Larrey Francisco Goya – Portrait of María Tomasa Palafox, Marquesa of Villafranca Antoine-Jean Gros – Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa Thomas Douglas Guest – Madonna and Child Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Bonaparte, First Consul Orest Kiprensky – Portrait of Adam Shvabler Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Caroline of Brunswick Stepan Shchukin – Portrait of Andreyan Zakharov (approximate date) George Stubbs – Ambrosio, a bay stallion, the property of Thomas Haworth Benjamin West Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes Thetis Bringing the Armor to Achilles (first version) David Wilkie Pitlessie Fair William Chalmers-Bethune, his wife Isabella Morison and their Daughter Isabella Awards The Prix de Rome had been expanded in 1803 to include musical composition as a category, but was not awarded in 1804. Grand Prix de Rome, painting: Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture: Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Grand Prix de Rome, music: (none awarded). Births January 21 – Moritz von Schwind, Austrian painter (died 1871) February 21 – Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers, French painter and caricaturist (died 1859) March 2 – Auguste Raffet, French illustrator and lithographer (died 1860) March 8 – Alvan Clark, American astronomer, telescope maker, portrait painter and engraver (died 1887) March 15 – Georgiana McCrae, English-born Australian painter (died 1890) April 4 – Andrew Nicholl, Irish painter (died 1886) April 16 – James Fahey, English landscape painter (died 1885) August 30 – Jacques Raymond Brascassat, French animal painter (died 1867) September 1 – John Scarlett Davis, English painter (died 1845) September 18 – John Steell, Scottish portrait sculptor (died 1891) September 27 – Anna McNeill Whistler, "Whistler's Mother" (died 1881) December 16 – Adèle Kindt, Belgian portrait and genre painter (died 1893) December 19 – Fitz Henry Lane, American luminist painter (died 1865) date unknown Chō Kōran, Japanese poet and nanga artist (died 1879) John Caspar Wild, Swiss-born American painter and lithographer (died 1846) Deaths February 27 - Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy, French painter primarily of naval scenes (born 1736) March 3 – Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian painter and