1824 in art

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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.

Works

Caspar David Friedrich – The Sea of Ice

• 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
• 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)
• 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 painter who worked exclusively in Ireland (born 1746)
• 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)