1805 in art
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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)