1805 in art

Events

• April 17 – English landscape artist Charles Gough sets out with his dog for a walk in the Lake District. On July 27 his skeleton is found on the slopes of Helvellyn, guarded by the dog.
• June – The British Institution is established in London by a group of connoisseurs.
• 5 June – The British Museum seeks government aid in order to purchase the late Charles Townley's collection of Roman sculpture.
• unknown date – 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
• 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
• *Portrait of Madame Récamier
• James Gillray – The Plumb-pudding in danger, or, State Epicures taking un Petit Souper
• Francisco Goya
• *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
• Marianne Kürzinger – Gallia Protects Bavaria
• Thomas Lawrence
• * Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Foster
• * Portrait of Lord Melbourne
• Philip James de Loutherbourg
• * The Evening Coach
• * The River Wye at Tintern Abbey
• Joseph Denis Odevaere – Portrait of François Wynckelman, François van der Donckt and Joseph Odevaere
• Richard Westall – The Reconciliation of Helen and Paris After His Defeat by Menelaus
• J.M.W. Turner
• * The Destruction of Sodom
• * The Deluge
• *Windsor Castle from the Thames
• David Wilkie – ''The Village Recruit''

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
• January 27 – Samuel Palmer, landscape painter and etcher
• April 5 – Samuel Forde, painter
• April 20 – Franz Xaver Winterhalter, painter
• May 11 – Philipp Foltz, painter
• July 14 – John Frederick Lewis, painter
• July 26 – Constantino Brumidi, fresco painter
• September 6 – Horatio Greenough, sculptor
• September 10 – Guillaume Geefs, sculptor
• October 23 – Adalbert Stifter, Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue

Deaths

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