1824 in art

Events

• April 2 – The British government buys John Julius Angerstein's art collection for £60,000 for the purpose of establishing a National Gallery in London which opens to the public in his former townhouse on May 10.
• May 3 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1824 opens at Somerset House in London
• August 25 – The Salon of 1824 opens at the Louvre in Paris. It is noted for the inclusion of British artists.
• * The Vow of Louis XIII, painted by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres for the cathedral of Montauban, is exhibited at the Paris Salon.
• * The Hay Wain by John Constable is one of three of the artist's paintings also exhibited at the Paris Salon and wins a gold medal.
• Caspar David Friedrich enters a depressive episode.
• Edwin Landseer visits Scotland for the first time to paint a portrait of Sir Walter Scott; he will return annually, concentrating on animal portraits.
• A National Gallery of Naval Art is created in the Painted Hall of Greenwich Hospital, London.

Works

• Richard Parkes Bonington
• * A Distant View of St-Omer
• * A Fishmarket near Boulogne
• * French Coast with Fisherman
• * Ruins of the Abbey Saint Bertin
• François Joseph Bosio – Statue of Henry IV of France as a child
• Henry Perronet Briggs – Colonel Blood Stealing the Crown Jewels
• Samuel Colman – St James's Fair
• Léon Cogniet – Marius among the Ruins of Carthage
• Louis Daguerre – The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel
• Francis Danby – Sunset at Sea after a Storm
• Jacques-Louis David
• * Mars Being Disarmed by Venus
• * Portrait of Juliette de Villeneuve
• Eugène Delacroix
• * The Massacre at Chios
• * Orphan Girl at the Cemetery
• Peter De Wint – Lincoln from the South
• John Flaxman – Pastoral Apollo
• Caspar David Friedrich – The Sea of Ice
• François Gérard – Daphnis and Chloe
• Antoine-Jean Gros – Portrait of Jean-Antoine Chaptal
• Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Ulysses and Minerva
• John Hayter – Kamāmalu, Queen Consort of Hawaii
• Frederick Yeates Hurlstone – A Venetian Page
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – The Vow of Louis XIII
• Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov
• * Cleansing of the Temple
• * Transfiguration
• Jan Adam Kruseman – The Great Belzoni
• Thomas Lawrence
• * Portrait of the Duke of Devonshire
• * Portrait of Frederick Robinson
• * Portrait of Princess Sophia
• Edwin Landseer – Lion, a Newfoundland Dog
• Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Portrait of the Duchess of Berry
• Charles Robert Leslie – Sancho Panza and the Duchess
• Alexandre Menjaud – The Death of the Duke of Berry
• Alexander Nasmyth – High Street and the Lawn Market, Edinburgh
• Johann Friedrich Overbeck – Christ's Entry into Jerusalem
• Jan Willem Pieneman – The Battle of Waterloo
• Edward Villiers Rippingille – The Stage Coach Breakfast
• John Trumbull – General George Washington Resigning His Commission
• J. M. W. Turner – The Battle of Trafalgar
• Horace Vernet
• * Conrad the Corsair
• * Duck Shooting
• * The Battle of Hanau
• * Napoleon Bids Farewell to his Guard at Fontainebleau
• * Portrait of the Duke of Angoulême
• David Wilkie –
• * The Cottage Toilette
• *The Sportsman
• William Frederick Witherington – ''A Modern Picture Gallery''

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
• Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture: Charles Seurre, sculptor.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Henri Labrouste.
• Grand Prix de Rome, engraving:
• Grand Prix de Rome, music: Auguste Barbereau.

Births

• January 27 – Jozef Israëls, Dutch painter
• March 31 – William Morris Hunt, American painter
• May 11 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor
• June 12 – Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, French sculptor and painter
• July 12 – Eugène Boudin, French painter
• August 26 – Martha Darley Mutrie, British painter
• October 14 – Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, French painter
• October 30 – Christen Dalsgaard, Danish genre painter
• December 6 – Emmanuel Frémiet, French sculptor
• December 10 – Aasta Hansteen, Norwegian painter, writer and early feminist
• December 14 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter

Deaths

• January 26 – Théodore Géricault, French painter and lithographer, pioneer of the Romantic movement
• January 28 – George Mills, British sculptor, engraver and medallist
• April 17 – William Ashford, British landscape painter working exclusively in Ireland
• May 28 – Joseph Reinhart, Swiss painter and draftsman
• September 12 – Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe, French artist, map-maker and close strategic advisor of Napoleon
• November 23 – Fyodor Alekseyev, Russian painter of landscape art
• December 9 – Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, French painter
• December 24
• * John Downman, English portrait painter
• * Antoine Vestier, French miniaturist and painter of portraits date unknown
• * François-Anne David, French line-engraver
• * Thomas Hickey, Irish painter of portraits and genre scenes