1805 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*William Blake begins work on the illustrations for Blair's "The Grave".

Works

*John Sell Cotman - "Greta Bridge"
*Thomas Douglas Guest - "Bearing the Dead Body of Patroclus to the Camp, Achilles's Grief"

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 27 - Samuel Palmer, landscape painter and etcher (d. 1881)
*July 14 - John Frederick Lewis, painter (d. 1876)
*September 6 - Horatio Greenough, sculptor (d. 1852)
*October 23 - Adalbert Stifter, Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue (d. 1868)
* Philipp Foltz, painter (d. 1877)
* Guillaume Geefs, sculptor (d. 1883)
* Carlo Marochetti, sculptor (d. 1867)
* Constantino Brumidi, fresco painter (d. 1880)

Deaths

*February 2 - Thomas Banks, sculptor (b. 1735)
*March 4 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, painter (b. 1725)
*May 2 - Vieira Portuense, painter (b. 1765)
*June 19 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, painter (b. 1724)
*July 10 - Thomas Wedgwood, pioneer photographer (b. 1771)
*December 6 - Nicolas-Jacques Conté, painter and inventor of the pencil (b. 1755)
* Pyotr Drozhdin - Russian painter (b. 1745)
* Deng Shiru - Chinese calligrapher during the Qing Dynasty (b. 1739/1743)
* Fedot Shubin - Russia sculptor (b. 1740)