# 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.
* 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
* François Joseph Bosio – Statue of Henry IV of France as a child (Louvre)
* Henry Perronet Briggs – Colonel Blood Stealing the Crown Jewels
* 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)
* 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
* Thomas Lawrence
** Portrait of Frederick Robinson
** Portrait of Princess Sophia
* Edwin Landseer – Lion, a Newfoundland Dog
* Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Portrait of the Duchess of Berry
* Alexandre Menjaud – The Death of the Duke of Berry
* 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
* Horace Vernet
** Conrad the Corsair
** Duck Shooting
** The Battle of Hanau
** Napoleon Bids Farewell to his Guard at Fontainebleau
* 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 (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)