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

• 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