Gottlob Alexander Sauerweid (Russian: Александр Иванович Зауервейд; 19 February 1783 – 25 October 1844) was a Baltic German painter who taught battle painting at the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts.

In 1795, when Kurland was annexed by Russia, his family moved to Germany where he received his artistic training at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts from 1806 to 1812.

[1] As a young man, he enjoyed some popularity and produced a series of horse portraits, commissioned by Napoleon.

He later went to Paris, travelling most of the way on foot for lack of funds, then to London, where his talent for painting battle scenes was recognized.

In 1814, Czar Alexander I invited him to Saint Petersburg to paint official portraits of Russian troops and their uniforms.