1824 in art

• 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about/history/establish/establishment.htm|publisher=National Gallery|title=Collection history|accessdate=2013-05-10|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070206022515/http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about/history/establish/establishment.htm|url-status=dead|archivedate=2007-02-06}}
• 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.{{cite web|title=Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA (1802–1873)|url=http://www.jenniferwilsonart.co.uk/HistoryofAnimalArt/landseer.html|publisher=Jennifer Wilson Art|year=2006|accessdate=2012-06-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205060828/http://www.jenniferwilsonart.co.uk/HistoryofAnimalArt/landseer.html|archive-date=2010-12-05|url-status=dead}}
• A National Gallery of Naval Art is created in the Painted Hall of Greenwich Hospital, London.{{cite web|url=http://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/past/the-national-gallery-of-naval-art|title=The National Gallery of Naval Art|publisher=National Maritime Museum|location=Greenwich|access-date=2013-10-09|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112221405/http://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/past/the-national-gallery-of-naval-art|archive-date=2013-11-12}}

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• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• David Wilkie –
• The Cottage Toilette
• The Sportsman
• William Frederick Witherington – A Modern Picture Gallery

• 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)
• 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){{cite book |editor-last=Lee|editor-first=Sidney|title=Dictionary of National Biography|date=1894|publisher=Macmillan and Co.|location=New York|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati39stepuoft/page/436/mode/1up|volume=XXXIX|page=436}}
• 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)

• January 26 – Théodore Géricault, French painter and lithographer, pioneer of the Romantic movement (born 1791){{cite book|author=Léon Rosenthal|title=Romanticism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xcKjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA168|date=10 May 2014|publisher=Parkstone International|isbn=978-1-78310-328-7|pages=168}}
• January 28 – George Mills, British sculptor, engraver and medallist (born 1792/1793){{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mKVJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA186|year=1824|publisher=E. Cave|pages=186}}
• April 17 – William Ashford, British landscape painter working exclusively in Ireland (born 1746){{cite book|author=Beaver Henry Blacker|title=Brief sketches of the parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook|url=https://archive.org/details/briefsketchespa00blacgoog|year=1860|pages=[https://archive.org/details/briefsketchespa00blacgoog/page/n324 304]}}
• 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){{cite book|title=Carnegie Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VbYaAQAAMAAJ|year=1944|publisher=The Institute|page=35}}
• date unknown
• François-Anne David, French line-engraver (born 1741)
• Thomas Hickey, Irish painter of portraits and genre scenes (born 1741)

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