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. ^[1] 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. ^[2]
• unknown date – William Blake begins work on the illustrations for Blair's The Grave.

Works

Gillray – The Plumb-pudding in danger - "probably the most famous political cartoon of all time - it has been stolen over and over and over again by cartoonists ever since."

Portrait of Lord Melbourne by Thomas Lawrence.

• 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 ^[4]
• Francisco Goya (approximate dates)
  • The Clothed Maja ^[5]
  • 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 Lady Elizabeth Foster
  • Portrait of Lord Melbourne
• Philip James de Loutherbourg
  • The Evening Coach
  • The River Wye at Tintern Abbey
• 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
  • The Destruction of Sodom
  • The Deluge
  • 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) ^[6]
• 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) ^[7]
• 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) ^[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)

References

1. Jones, Jonathan (15 March 2003). "The Romantics and the myth of Charles Gough". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 November 2008.
2. "Petition from the British Museum, Respecting Mr Townley's Collection". Hansard HC Deb. 5 June 1805. Retrieved 4 February 2025. vol 5 cc170-2
3. Martin Rowson, speaking on The Secret of Drawing, presented by Andrew Graham Dixon, BBC Television.
4. "The plumb-pudding in danger: - or - state epicures taking un petit souper". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
5. "The Clothed Maja - The Collection - Museo Nacional del Prado". www.museodelprado.es. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
6. "Baron (Pietro) Carlo Giovanni Battista Marochetti". gla.ac.uk.
7. Henry T Tuckerman, A memorial of Horatio Greenough, New York: G. P, Putnam & Co., 1853.
8.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Bryan, Michael (1886). "Claudot, Jean Baptiste Charles". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.