1824 in art
Events in the year 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