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
• July 14 - John Frederick Lewis, painter
• September 6 - Horatio Greenough, sculptor
• date unknown - Philipp Foltz, painter
• date unknown - Guillaume Geefs, sculptor
• date unknown - Carlo Marochetti, sculptor

Deaths

• February 2 - Thomas Banks, sculptor
• March 4 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, painter
• May 2 - Vieira Portuense, painter
• June 19 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, painter
• July 10 - Thomas Wedgwood (1771-1805), pioneer photographer
• December 6 - Nicolas-Jacques Conté, painter and inventor of the pencil