1808 in art

• May 2 and May 3 – In Spain the guerrilla resistance movement against the French forces of Napoleon Bonaparte begins; immortalized in 1814 by Francisco Goya's Third of May 1808.
• April 5 – John James Audubon marries Lucy Bakewell.[http://hendersonkyhistory.com/JJAudubonBio.htm Henderson County, Kentucky Biography of Audubon]. Accessed 9 April 2015
• The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, is given the title of Royal Academy of Fine Arts by King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria.{{cite book|author=William Sandby|title=The History of the Royal Academy of Arts from Its Foundation in 1768 to the Present Time|publisher=Longman, Roberts, & Green|year=1862|page=64}}
• The Rijksmuseum moves from The Hague to Amsterdam, where it is located temporarily at the Royal Palace.{{cite web|title=The beginning|url=https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/organisation/history-of-the-rijksmuseum|website=History of the Rijksmuseum|publisher=Rijksmuseum|accessdate=2 February 2018}}
• Thomas Phillips is elected to the Royal Academy.

File:Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord by François Gérard, 1808.jpg by François Gérard]]

• Louis-Léopold Boilly – Departure of the Conscripts
• Antonio Canova – Venus Victrix (marble reclining nude){{cite book|title=Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789-1945|editor=Catharine Edwards|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1999|isbn=9780521591973|page=60}}
• Richard Cosway – Portrait miniature of Arthur Wellesley
• François-Xavier Fabre – The Judgement of Paris
• François Gérard
• Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte
• Portrait of Talleyrand
• James Gillray – The Spanish Bullfight
• Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
• The Burial of Atala{{Cite journal |last=Wakefield |first=David |date=1978 |title=Chateaubriand's 'Atala' as a Source of Inspiration in Nineteenth-Century Art |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/879073 |journal=The Burlington Magazine |volume=120 |issue=898 |pages=13–24 |jstor=879073 |issn=0007-6287}}
• Napoleon Receiving the Keys of Vienna{{cite book|author=Cumming, Robert|title=Art|publisher=Dorling Kindersley|year=2008|page=264}}
• François-René de Chateaubriand
• Hortense de Beauharnais
• Antoine-Jean Gros – Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
• The Valpinçon Bather{{cite web|url=https://mini-site.louvre.fr/ingres/1.4.2.1_en.html|title=1806–1824 - Rome and Florence|website=Louvre|access-date=4 February 2025}}
• Oedipus and the Sphinx
• Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of the Children of Ayscoghe Boucherett
• Adolphe Roehn – The Meeting of Napoleon I and Tsar Alexander I at Tilsit{{cite book|author1=Michel Franceschi|author2=Ben Weider|title=Wars Against Napoleon: Debunking the Myth of the Napoleonic Wars|publisher=Savas Beatie|year=2008|page=132}}
• J. M. W. Turner
• Pope's Villa at Twickenham* Hunt, John Dixon. Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture. MIT Press, 1992. p.225
• View of Richmond Hill and Bridge{{cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-view-of-richmond-hill-and-bridge-n00557|title=View of Richmond Hill and Bridge|website=Tate|access-date=4 February 2025}}

• Johann Dominicus Fiorillo – {{Lang|de|Geschichte der zeichnenden Künste}}.
• Robert Blair – The Grave, with illustrations from designs by William Blake (including A Vision of the Last Judgment).
• Augustus Charles Pugin & Thomas Rowlandson – Volume 1 of The Microcosm of London, illustrated in aquatint from watercolours produced jointly by Pugin & Rowlandson and published by Rudolph Ackermann in London.

File:Interior of a prison.jpg – Prison Interior. 42.9 cm x 31.7 cm, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle]]

• February 5 – Carl Spitzweg, German Biedermeier painter (died 1885)
• February 26 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, sculptor and illustrator (died 1879){{EB1911|wstitle=Daumier, Honoré|volume=7|page=849}}
• March 6 – Sofia Adlersparre, Swedish painter (died 1862)
• July 12 – Edward Troye, Swiss-born American equine painter (died 1874)
• December 14 – Édouard De Bièfve, Belgian painter (died 1882)
• Date unknown – Nikola Aleksić, Serbian portraitist in the Biedermeier artistic tradition and the Nazarene movement of 19th century German painters (died 1873)

• February 10 – Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Irish portrait artist (born 1740)
• March 1 – Fredrika Eleonora von Düben, Swedish textile artist, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (born 1738){{cite web|url= https://runeberg.org/sqvinnor/0142.html|title= Düben, Fredrika Eleonora von |year= 1864 |publisher= Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor

|access-date=1 March 2019}}

• March 3 – Anton von Maron, Austrian painter active in Rome (born 1733)
• April 10 – Jean-Laurent Mosnier, French painter and miniaturist (born 1743)
• April 15 – Hubert Robert, French painter (born 1733)
• April 26 – Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French Rococo painter, designer and engraver (born 1728)
• June 1 – Jacques Kuyper, Dutch printmaker, painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, musician, and composer (born 1761)
• June 6 – Magdalene Bärens, Danish still life and flower painter (born 1737){{cite web|url=https://kvindebiografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Magdalene_Margrethe_B%c3%a4rens|title=Magdalene Margrethe Bärens|author=Dyveke Helsted|website=Kvindebiografisk Leksikon|access-date=13 February 2025}}
• December 4 – Karl Ludwig Fernow, German art critic (born 1763)
• December 18 – Christina Chalon, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1748){{cite web|title=Chalon, Christina (1749-1808)|url=http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/19563494|website=Het Biografisch Portaal|access-date=4 February 2025}}
• December 22 – Samuel Shelley, English miniaturist and watercolour painter (born 1750){{DNB Cite|wstitle=Shelley, Samuel|volume=52}}

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