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 (Louvre)
• 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 (approx. date)
• 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 (c. 1823 or 1824)
• Peter De Wint – Lincoln from the South
• John Flaxman – Pastoral Apollo
• Caspar David Friedrich – The Sea of Ice
• François Gérard – '
• 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
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• 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