1805 in art

Events in the year 1805 in Art.

Events

 * April 17 – English landscape artist Charles Gough sets out on a walk in the Lake District. On July 27 his skeleton is found on the slopes of Helvellyn.
 * June – The British Institution (for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom) is established in London by a group of connoisseurs.
 * The British Museum purchases Charles Townley's collection of Roman sculpture.
 * William Blake begins work on the illustrations for Blair's The Grave.

Works

 * William Blake – The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne (pencil and watercolour)
 * Vincenzo Camuccini – The Death of Caesar
 * John Sell Cotman – Greta Bridge
 * Jacques-Louis David – Portrait of Pope Pius VII
 * François Gérard
 * Portrait of Catherine Worlée, Princesse de Talleyrand-Périgord (1804–05)
 * Portrait of Madame Récamier
 * James Gillray – The Plumb-pudding in danger, or, State Epicures taking un Petit Souper
 * Francisco Goya (approximate dates)
 * The Clothed Maja
 * Portrait of Doña Isabel de Porcel
 * Thomas Douglas Guest – Bearing the Dead Body of Patroclus to the Camp, Achilles's Grief
 * Orest Kiprensky – Prince Dmitri Donskoi after the Battle of Kulikovo
 * Joseph Denis Odevaere – Portrait of François Wynckelman, François van der Donckt and Joseph Odevaere (Groeningemuseum)

Awards

 * Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
 * Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
 * Grand Prix de Rome, music: Ferdinand Gasse & Victor Dourlen.

Births

 * January 14 – Carlo Marochetti, sculptor (died 1867)
 * January 27 – Samuel Palmer, landscape painter and etcher (died 1881)
 * April 5 – Samuel Forde, painter (died 1828)
 * April 20 – Franz Xaver Winterhalter, painter (died 1873)
 * May 11 – Philipp Foltz, painter (died 1877)
 * July 14 – John Frederick Lewis, painter (died 1876)
 * July 26 – Constantino Brumidi, fresco painter (died 1880)
 * September 6 – Horatio Greenough, sculptor (died 1852)
 * September 10 – Guillaume Geefs, sculptor (died 1883)
 * October 23 – Adalbert Stifter, Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue (died 1868)

Deaths

 * February 2 – Thomas Banks, English sculptor (born 1735)
 * March 4 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (born 1725)
 * April 28 – Charles-Antoine Bridan, French sculptor (born 1730)
 * May 2 – Vieira Portuense, Portuguese painter (born 1765)
 * May 24 – Fedot Shubin, Russian sculptor (born 1740)
 * June 7 – James Gabriel Huquier, French portrait painter and engraver (born 1725)
 * June 19 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (born 1724)
 * July 10 – Thomas Wedgwood, English pioneer photographer (born 1771)
 * December 6 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter and inventor of the pencil (born 1755)
 * December 27 – Jean-Baptiste Claudot, French painter of landscapes, flowers and still-life (born 1733)
 * date unknown
 * Pyotr Drozhdin, Russian painter (born 1745)
 * Thomas Hardy, English portrait painter (born 1757))
 * Gustaf Lucander, Finnish painter (born 1724)
 * Francesco Pozzi, Italian engraver (born 1750)
 * Marie-Thérèse Reboul, French painter of natural history, still lifes, and flowers (born 1728)
 * Deng Shiru, Chinese calligrapher during the Qing Dynasty (born 1739/1743)