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 (Lukasbund), 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
 * Caspar David Friedrich – Mönch am Meer
 * Thomas Douglas Guest
 * The Transfiguration
 * Venus recumbent and Cupids
 * Orest Kiprensky
 * Portrait of Countess Ye. P. Rostopchina
 * Portrait of Yevgraf Davydov
 * Thomas Lawrence
 * Portrait of George III
 * Lord Castlereagh
 * Charles Willson Peale – The Peale Family
 * Henry Raeburn – Mrs Spiers
 * J. M. W. Turner – London from Greenwich Park
 * Richard Westmacott – Statue of Horatio Nelson, Birmingham

Births

 * February 15 – Owen Jones, British architect, interior designer, and pioneer of chromolithography (died 1874)
 * March 1 – Robert Cornelius, American pioneer of photography (died 1893)
 * March 23 – Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, French painter (died 1864)
 * April 17 – Thomas Brigstocke, Welsh portrait painter (died 1881)
 * May 5 – Frederick Langenheim, German American pioneer of panoramic photography (died 1879)
 * May 20 – Albert Newsam, American artist (died 1864)
 * August 28 – Giovanni Maria Benzoni, Italian sculptor (died 1873)
 * October 9 – Thomas Baker "of Leamington", English landscape painter (died 1864)
 * December 24 (bapt.) – Mary Thornycroft, English sculptor (died 1895)
 * unknown date Mary Ellen Best, English watercolour artist (died 1891)

Deaths

 * January 3 – Henri-Pierre Danloux, French painter (born 1753)
 * January 7 – Johann Peter Alexander Wagner, Rococo sculptor (born 1730)
 * February 23 – Dirk van der Aa, Dutch painter (born 1731)
 * March 7 – Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French draughtsman and engraver (born 1731)
 * March 23 – Étienne Dantoine, French sculptor (born 1737)
 * March 27 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (born 1716)
 * April 6 – Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, Swiss painter (born 1752)
 * May 8 – Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (born 1730)
 * June 4 – Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish Neoclassicist painter (born 1743)
 * September 1 – Pierre-Joseph Lion, Belgian painter (born 1729)
 * November 7 – Paul Sandby, map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours (born 1731)
 * November 11 – Jean-Joseph Taillasson, French painter (born 1745)
 * date unknown
 * Immanuel Alm, Finnish painter of primarily religious-themed works (born 1767)
 * Jonathan Fisher, Irish painter (born unknown)