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.^[1]
• The Vow of Louis XIII, painted by
  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.
• 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.^[2]
• A National Gallery of Naval Art is created in the Painted Hall of Greenwich Hospital, London.^[3]

Works

• 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
  .

• 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)
• sculptor and painter (died 1887
  )
• July 12 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (died 1898)
• August 26 – Martha Darley Mutrie, British painter (died 1885)^[4]
• 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)
• 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)^[5]
• January 28 – George Mills, British sculptor, engraver and medallist (born 1792/1793)^[6]
• April 17 – William Ashford, British landscape painter working exclusively in Ireland (born 1746)^[7]
• 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)
• 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)^[8]
• date unknown
  • François-Anne David, French line-engraver (born 1741)
  • genre scenes (born 1741
    )