1805 in art

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Events in the year 1805 in Art.

Events

April 17 – English landscape artist Charles Gough sets out on a walk in the Lake District. On July 27 his skeleton is found on the slopes of Helvellyn.
June – The British Institution (for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom) is established in London by a group of connoisseurs.
The British Museum purchases Charles Townley's collection of Roman sculpture.
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."[1]

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
Joseph Denis Odevaere – Portrait of François Wynckelman, François van der Donckt and Joseph Odevaere (Groeningemuseum)

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 4 – Carlo Marochetti, sculptor (died 1867)[2]
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)[3]
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)[4]
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)

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References

Martin Rowson, speaking on The Secret of Drawing, presented by Andrew Graham Dixon, BBC Television.
"Baron (Pietro) Carlo Giovanni Battista Marochetti". gla.ac.uk.
Henry T Tuckerman, A memorial of Horatio Greenough, New York: G. P, Putnam & Co., 1853.
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). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

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[1] Martin Rowson, speaking on The Secret of Drawing, presented by Andrew Graham Dixon, BBC Television.

[2] "Baron (Pietro) Carlo Giovanni Battista Marochetti". gla.ac.uk.

[3] Henry T Tuckerman, A memorial of Horatio Greenough, New York: G. P, Putnam & Co., 1853.

[4] 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). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.