1824 in art
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Events in the year 1824 in art.
Events
- April 2 â 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]
- May 3 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1824 opens at Somerset House in London
- August 25 â 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.[2]
- A National Gallery of Naval Art is created in the Painted Hall of Greenwich Hospital, London.[3]
Works
- Richard Parkes Bonington
- François Joseph Bosio â Statue of Henry IV of France as a child (Louvre)
- Henry Perronet Briggs â Colonel Blood Stealing the Crown Jewels
- William Collins â The Cherry Seller[4]
- Samuel Colman â St James's Fair
- Léon Cogniet â Marius among the Ruins of Carthage
- Louis Daguerre â The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel (approx. date)
- Francis Danby â Sunset at Sea after a Storm
- Jacques-Louis David
- Eugène Delacroix
- The Massacre at Chios
- Orphan Girl at the Cemetery (c. 1823 or 1824)
- Peter De Wint â Lincoln from the South
- Charles Lock Eastlake â The Champion[6]
- John Flaxman â Pastoral Apollo
- Caspar David Friedrich â The Sea of Ice
- François Gérard â Daphnis and Chloe
- Antoine-Jean Gros â Portrait of Jean-Antoine Chaptal
- Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin â Ulysses and Minerva
- John Hayter â KamÄmalu, Queen Consort of Hawaii
- Frederick Yeates Hurlstone â A Venetian Page
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres â The Vow of Louis XIII
- Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov
- Jan Adam Kruseman â The Great Belzoni
- Thomas Lawrence
- Edwin Landseer â Lion, a Newfoundland Dog
- Ãlisabeth Vigée Le Brun â Portrait of the Duchess of Berry
- Charles Robert Leslie â Sancho Panza and the Duchess
- Alexandre Menjaud â The Death of the Duke of Berry
- Alexander Nasmyth â High Street and the Lawn Market, Edinburgh
- Johann Friedrich Overbeck â Christ's Entry into Jerusalem
- Jan Willem Pieneman â The Battle of Waterloo
- Edward Villiers Rippingille â The Stage Coach Breakfast
- John Trumbull â General George Washington Resigning His Commission
- J. M. W. Turner â 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 â
- William Frederick Witherington â 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 â Jozef Israëls, Dutch painter (died 1911)
- March 31 â William Morris Hunt, American painter (died 1879)
- May 11 â Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (died 1904)
- June 12 â Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, French sculptor and painter (died 1887)
- July 12 â Eugène Boudin, French painter (died 1898)
- August 26 â Martha Darley Mutrie, British painter (died 1885)[7]
- October 14 â Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, French painter (died 1886)
- October 30 â Christen Dalsgaard, Danish genre painter (died 1907)
- December 6 â Emmanuel Frémiet, French sculptor (died 1910)
- December 10 â Aasta Hansteen, Norwegian painter, writer and early feminist (died 1908)
- December 14 â Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (died 1898)
Deaths
- January 26 â Théodore Géricault, French painter and lithographer, pioneer of the Romantic movement (born 1791)[8]
- January 28 â George Mills, British sculptor, engraver and medallist (born 1792/1793)[9]
- April 17 â William Ashford, British landscape painter working exclusively in Ireland (born 1746)[10]
- May 28 â Joseph Reinhart, Swiss painter and draftsman (born 1749)
- September 12 â Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe, French artist, map-maker and close strategic advisor of Napoleon (born 1761)
- November 23 â Fyodor Alekseyev, Russian painter of landscape art (born 1753)
- December 9 â 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)[11]
- date unknown
- François-Anne David, French line-engraver (born 1741)
- Thomas Hickey, Irish painter of portraits and genre scenes (born 1741)