Editing 1839 in art (section)

==Deaths==
* [[January 12]] – [[Joseph Anton Koch]], Austrian [[Painting|painter]] of the [[German Romanticism|German Romantic]] movement (born [[1768 in art|1768]])
* [[January 14]] – [[John Wesley Jarvis]], American painter (born [[1781 in art|1781]])
* [[January 28]] – Sir [[William Beechey]], English portrait painter (born [[1753 in art|1753]])
* [[February 6]] – [[François Louis Thomas Francia]], French shorescape watercolorist (born [[1772 in art|1772]])
* [[February 8]] – [[Giovanni Cendramini]], Italian painter and engraver (born [[1760 in art|1760]])
* [[February 21]] – [[John Charles Felix Rossi]], English sculptor (born [[1769 in art|1769]])
* [[June 2]] – [[Wijnand Nuijen]], Dutch land- and seascape painter (born [[1813 in art|1813]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Cornelia Scheffer]], Dutch painter and portrait miniaturist (born [[1769 in art|1769]])
* [[July 8]] – [[John Laporte (artist)|John Laporte]], English landscape painter and etcher (born [[1761 in art|1761]])
* [[September 4]] – [[Hendrik Voogd]], Dutch painter and printmaker active in Italy (born [[1768 in art|1768]])
* [[September 10]] – [[Pieter Fontijn]], Dutch painter and drawer (born [[1773 in art|1773]])
* [[September 30]] – [[John Thirtle]], English watercolour painter and frame-maker (born [[1777 in art|1777]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Giocondo Albertolli]], Swiss-born architect, painter and sculptor active in Italy (born [[1743 in art|1743]])
* December – [[William Sadler (painter)|William Sadler]], Irish landscape painter (born [[1782 in art|1782]])<ref name="HutchinsonO'Connor1985">{{cite book|author1=John Hutchinson|author2=James Arthur O'Connor|title=James Arthur O'Connor|url=https://archive.org/details/jamesarthuroconn0000hutc|url-access=registration|year=1985|publisher=National Gallery of Ireland|isbn=978-0-903162-28-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/jamesarthuroconn0000hutc/page/44 44]}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] – [[Cornelis van Spaendonck]], Dutch painter (born [[1756 in art|1756]])
* ''date unknown'' – [[Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini]], Italian portrait and caricature painter (born [[1757 in art|1757]])