1705 in art

Events

• The Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera becomes the first woman elected to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.

Paintings

• Federiko Benković - Juno on the Clouds
• Michael Dahl - Queen Anne

Births

• February 15 – Charles-André van Loo, French subject painter (died 1765), and a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo
• August 18 – Emanuel Büchel, Swiss painter (died 1775)
• date unknown
  • Andrea Casali – Italian painter of the Rococo period (died 1784)
  • Claude Drevet – French portrait engraver (died 1782)
  • Robert Feke – American painter (died 1750)
  • Matthäus Günther – German painter and artist of the Baroque and Rococo era (died 1788)

Deaths

• January 12 – Luca Giordano, Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching (born 1634)
• March 28 - Gaspard Rigaud, French painter and portraitist (born 1661)
• June 16 – Adriaen van der Cabel, Dutch painter of the Dutch school](born 1631)
• July 16 – François Lespingola, sculptor (born 1644)
• date unknown
  • Zhu Da, Chinese painter of shuimohua and a calligrapher (born 1626)
  • Claude Bertin – French sculptor for the Palace of Versailles (b. unknown)
  • Giuseppe Diamantini – Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period (born 1621)
  • Antonio Giusti – Italian painter, active mainly in Florence (born 1624)
  • Andrea Miglionico – Italian painter of historical subjects (b. unknown)
  • Francisco Meneses Osorio – Spanish painter (born 1630)
  • Daniel Seiter, Viennese born fresco painter of the Baroque (born 1642/1647)
  • Bada Shanren, Chinese painter of shuimohua and a calligrapher (born 1626)
  • Zhou Shuxi, female Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (born 1624)