1809 in art
Events in the year 1809 in Art.
Events
- Six students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna form an artistic cooperative called the Brotherhood of St. Luke, predecessor of the Nazarene movement.
Works
Image:Constable MalvernHall.jpg|thumb|right|300px|John Constable, Malvern Hall 1809- Pietro Benvenuti – Elisa Bonaparte surrounded by the artists of Florence
- John Constable – Malvern Hall
- John Singleton Copley – George, Prince of Wales, on horseback
- Jacques-Louis David – Sappho and Phaon
- George Dawe – Imogen Found in the Cave of Belarius
- Caspar David Friedrich – Mönch am Meer
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Portrait of Chateaubriand
- Thomas Douglas Guest
- *The Transfiguration
- *Venus recumbent and Cupids
- Charles Howard Hodges – Portrait of Louis Bonaparte
- Orest Kiprensky
- *Portrait of Countess Ye. P. Rostopchina
- *Portrait of Yevgraf Davydov
- Thomas Lawrence
- *Portrait of George III
- * Lord Castlereagh
- William Mulready – Returning from the Ale House
- Abraham Pether – Old Drury Lane Theatre on Fire
- Charles Willson Peale – The Peale Family
- Henry Raeburn – Mrs Spiers
- J. M. W. Turner
- * Fishing Upon the Blythe Sand
- * The Garreteer's Petition
- * Harvest Dinner, Kingston Bank
- * The Trout Stream
- * London from Greenwich Park
- * Ploughing Up Turnips, Near Slough
- * Sun Setting through Vapour
- Richard Westall – Nelson and the Bear
- Richard Westmacott – Statue of Horatio Nelson, Birmingham
Births
- February 15 – Owen Jones, British architect, interior designer, and pioneer of chromolithography
- March 1 – Robert Cornelius, American pioneer of photography
- March 23 – Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, French painter
- April 17 – Thomas Brigstocke, Welsh portrait painter
- May 5 – Frederick Langenheim, German American pioneer of panoramic photography
- May 20 – Albert Newsam, American artist
- August 28 – Giovanni Maria Benzoni, Italian sculptor
- October 9 – Thomas Baker "of Leamington", English landscape painter
- December 24 – Mary Thornycroft, English sculptor
- unknown date Mary Ellen Best, English watercolour artist
Deaths
- January 3 – Henri-Pierre Danloux, French painter
- January 7 – Johann Peter Alexander Wagner, Rococo sculptor
- February 23 – Dirk van der Aa, Dutch painter
- March 7 – Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French draughtsman and engraver
- March 23 – Étienne Dantoine, French sculptor
- March 27 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter
- April 6 – Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, Swiss painter
- May 8 – Augustin Pajou, French sculptor
- June 4 – Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish Neoclassicist painter
- September 1 – Pierre-Joseph Lion, Belgian painter
- November 7 – Paul Sandby, map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours
- November 11 – Jean-Joseph Taillasson, French painter date unknown
- * Immanuel Alm, Finnish painter of primarily religious-themed works
- * Jonathan Fisher, Irish painter