Events from the year 1705 in art.

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

• Federiko Benković – Juno on the Clouds
• Michael Dahl – Queen Anne
• Sebastiano Ricci
  • The Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs
  • The Vision of St. Bruno

• February 15 – Charles-André van Loo, French subject painter (died 1765), and a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo
• June 1 – Carl Marcus Tuscher, German-born Danish polymath, portrait painter, printmaker, architect, and decorator (died 1751)
• August 18 – Emanuel Büchel, Swiss painter (died 1775)
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  • Jean Barbault, French painter and engraver (died 1765/1766)
  • Andrés de la Calleja, Spanish painter (died 1785)
  • Andrea Casali, Italian painter of the Rococo period (died 1784)
  • Carlo Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period (died 1781)
  • Claude Drevet – French portrait engraver (died 1782)
  • Robert Feke, American painter (died 1750)
  • Johan Graham, painter from London active in The Hague and Amsterdam (died 1775)
  • Matthäus Günther, German painter and artist of the Baroque and Rococo era (died 1788)
  • Jakob Klukstad, Norwegian wood carver and painter (died 1773)
  • José Ramírez de Arellano, Spanish Baroque architect and sculptor (died 1770)
  • 1704/1705: Jan Jerzy Plersch, Polish sculptor of German origin (died 1774)

• January 5 – Georg Christoph Eimmart, German draughtsman and engraver (born 1638)
• 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, French sculptor (born 1644)
• September 15 – Orazio Talami, Italian Baroque painter (born 1624)
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  • Zhu Da, Chinese painter of shuimohua and a calligrapher (born 1626)
  • Claude Bertin, French sculptor for the Palace of Versailles (date of birth 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 (date of birth 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)