# 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 (for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom) 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 (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
* Marianne Kürzinger – Gallia Protects Bavaria
* Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Lord Melbourne
* Joseph Denis Odevaere – Portrait of François Wynckelman, François van der Donckt and Joseph Odevaere (Groeningemuseum)
* Richard Westall – The Reconciliation of Helen and Paris After His Defeat by Menelaus
* J.M.W. Turner – 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 (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)