1805 in art
Events in the year 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