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)^[2]
• 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)^[3]
• 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)^[4]
• 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)