1804 in art

January 21 – Moritz von Schwind, Austrian painter (died 1871)^[11]
February 21 – Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers, French painter and caricaturist (died 1859)^[12]
March 2 – Auguste Raffet, French illustrator and lithographer (died 1860)^[13]
March 8 – Alvan Clark, American astronomer, telescope maker, portrait painter and engraver (died 1887)^[14]
March 15 – Georgiana McCrae, English-born Australian painter (died 1890)^[15]
April 4 – Andrew Nicholl, Irish painter (died 1886)^[16]
April 16 – James Fahey, English landscape painter (died 1885)^[17]
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)
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- Chō Kōran, Japanese poet and nanga artist (died 1879)
- John Caspar Wild, Swiss-born American painter and lithographer (died 1846)

January 28 – Nils Schillmark, Swedish-born painter who lived and worked in Finland (born 1745)^[18]
February 27 - Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy, French painter primarily of naval scenes (born 1736)
March 3 – Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian painter and printmaker in etching (born 1727)^[19]
March 5 – Francis Sartorius, English painter of horses (born 1734)
March 18 – Louis Jean Desprez, French painter and architect (born 1743)
June 2 – Cornelius Høyer, Danish miniature painter (born 1741)
October – Charles Grignion the Younger, British history and portrait painter and engraver (born 1754)^[20]
October 29 – George Morland, English painter of animals and rustic scenes (born 1763)
November 4 – Nicola Peccheneda, Italian painter (born 1725)^{[citation needed]}
November 5 – August Friedrich Oelenhainz, German painter (born 1745)^[21]
November 18 – Charles-Étienne Gaucher, French engraver (born 1740)^[22]
December 12 – John Boydell, English engraver (born 1720)^[23]
December 17 – Pierre Julien, French sculptor (born 1731)^[24]
December 24 – Moses Haughton the elder, English designer, engraver and painter of portraits and still life (born 1734)^[25]
date unknown
- Peter Haas, German-Danish engraver (born 1754)
- Liu Yong, Chinese politician and calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty (born 1719)

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