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Events in the year 1809 in Art.

• 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.^[1]

• 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^[2]
• Caspar David Friedrich – Mönch am Meer
• Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Portrait of Chateaubriand
• 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 Westall – Nelson and the Bear
• Richard Westmacott – Statue of Horatio Nelson, Birmingham

• February 15 – Owen Jones, British architect, interior designer, and pioneer of chromolithography (died 1874)^[3]
• March 1 – Robert Cornelius, American pioneer of photography (died 1893)^[4]
• 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)^[5]
• 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)^[6]
• unknown date Mary Ellen Best, English watercolour artist (died 1891)^[7]

• 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)^[8]
• 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)