1805 in art

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See also: 1804 in art, other 1805 events, 1806 in art, list of years in art.

Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• William Blake begins work on the illustrations for Blair's The Grave.

[edit] Works

• John Sell Cotman - Greta Bridge
• Thomas Douglas Guest - Bearing the Dead Body of Patroclus to the Camp, Achilles's Grief

[edit] 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

[edit] 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