1805 in art
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Events in the year 1805 in Art.
Events
- April 17 â English landscape artist Charles Gough sets out with his dog for a walk in the Lake District.[1] On July 27 his skeleton is found on the slopes of Helvellyn, guarded by the dog.
- June â The British Institution (for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom) is established in London by a group of connoisseurs.
- 5 June â The British Museum seeks government aid in order to purchase the late Charles Townley's collection of Roman sculpture.[2]
- unknown date â William Blake begins work on the illustrations for Blair's The Grave.
Works
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- William Blake â The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne (pencil and watercolour)
- Vincenzo Camuccini â The Death of Caesar
- John Sell Cotman â Greta Bridge
- Jacques-Louis David â Portrait of Pope Pius VII
- François Gérard
- James Gillray â The Plumb-pudding in danger, or, State Epicures taking un Petit Souper[4]
- Francisco Goya (approximate dates)
- Thomas Douglas Guest â Bearing the Dead Body of Patroclus to the Camp, Achilles's Grief
- Orest Kiprensky â Prince Dmitri Donskoi after the Battle of Kulikovo
- Marianne Kürzinger â Gallia Protects Bavaria
- Thomas Lawrence
- Philip James de Loutherbourg
- Joseph Denis Odevaere â Portrait of François Wynckelman, François van der Donckt and Joseph Odevaere (Groeningemuseum)
- Richard Westall â The Reconciliation of Helen and Paris After His Defeat by Menelaus
- J.M.W. Turner
- David Wilkie â 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 â Carlo Marochetti, sculptor (died 1867)[6]
- January 27 â Samuel Palmer, landscape painter and etcher (died 1881)
- April 5 â Samuel Forde, painter (died 1828)
- April 20 â Franz Xaver Winterhalter, painter (died 1873)
- May 11 â Philipp Foltz, painter (died 1877)
- July 14 â John Frederick Lewis, painter (died 1876)
- July 26 â Constantino Brumidi, fresco painter (died 1880)
- July 29 â Hiram Powers, American neoclassical sculptor (died 1873)
- September 6 â Horatio Greenough, sculptor (died 1852)[7]
- September 10 â Guillaume Geefs, sculptor (died 1883)
- October 23 â Adalbert Stifter, Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue (died 1868)
Deaths
- February 2 â Thomas Banks, English sculptor (born 1735)
- March 4 â Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (born 1725)
- April 28 â Charles-Antoine Bridan, French sculptor (born 1730)
- May 2 â Vieira Portuense, Portuguese painter (born 1765)
- May 24 â Fedot Shubin, Russian sculptor (born 1740)
- June 7 â James Gabriel Huquier, French portrait painter and engraver (born 1725)
- June 19 â Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (born 1724)
- July 10 â Thomas Wedgwood, English pioneer photographer (born 1771)
- December 6 â Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter and inventor of the pencil (born 1755)
- December 27 â Jean-Baptiste Claudot, French painter of landscapes, flowers and still-life (born 1733)[8]
- 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)
