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.
 * 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

 * François Joseph Bosio – Statue of Henry IV of France as a child (Louvre)
 * Léon Cogniet – Marius among the Ruins of Carthage
 * Louis Daguerre – The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel (approx. date)
 * Jacques-Louis David – Mars Being Disarmed by Venus
 * Eugène Delacroix
 * The Massacre at Chios
 * Orphan Girl at the Cemetery (c. 1823 or 1824)
 * John Flaxman – Pastoral Apollo
 * Caspar David Friedrich – The Sea of Ice
 * François Gérard – Daphnis and Chloe
 * Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Ulysses and Minerva
 * John Hayter – Kamāmalu, Queen Consort of Hawaii
 * Frederick Yeates Hurlstone – A Venetian Page
 * Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Vow of Louis XIII
 * Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov
 * Cleansing of the Temple
 * Transfiguration
 * Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Frederick Robinson
 * Edwin Landseer – Lion, A Newfoundland Dog
 * Johann Friedrich Overbeck – Christ's Entry into Jerusalem
 * Jan Willem Pieneman – The Battle of Waterloo 
 * John Trumbull – General George Washington Resigning His Commission
 * J. M. W. Turner – The Battle of Trafalgar

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 (died 1911)
 * March 31 – William Morris Hunt, American painter (died 1879)
 * May 11 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (died 1904)
 * June 12 – Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, French sculptor and painter (died 1887)
 * July 12 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (died 1898)
 * August 26 – Martha Darley Mutrie, British painter (died 1885)
 * October 14 – Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, French painter (died 1886)
 * October 30 – Christen Dalsgaard, Danish genre painter (died 1907)
 * December 6 – Emmanuel Frémiet, French sculptor (died 1910)
 * December 10 – Aasta Hansteen, Norwegian painter, writer and early feminist (died 1908)
 * December 14 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (died 1898)

Deaths

 * January 26 – Théodore Géricault, French painter and lithographer, pioneer of the Romantic movement (born 1791)
 * January 28 – George Mills, British sculptor, engraver and medallist (born 1792/1793)
 * April 17 – William Ashford, British landscape painter working exclusively in Ireland (born 1746)
 * May 28 – Joseph Reinhart, Swiss painter and draftsman (born 1749)
 * September 12 – Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe, French artist, map-maker and close strategic advisor of Napoleon (born 1761)
 * November 23 – Fyodor Alekseyev, Russian painter of landscape art (born 1753)
 * December 9 – Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, French painter (born 1767)
 * December 24
 * John Downman, English portrait painter (born 1750)
 * Antoine Vestier, French miniaturist and painter of portraits (born 1740)
 * date unknown
 * François-Anne David, French line-engraver (born 1741)
 * Thomas Hickey, Irish painter of portraits and genre scenes (born 1741)