Royal Academy Exhibition of 1868

Before Waterloo by Henry Nelson O'Neil

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1868 was the hundredth annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held between 4 May and 23 July 1868. It was the last to be held at the National Gallery in London's Trafalgar Square, which had been the headquarters of the Royal Academy since its move from its previous home Somerset House in 1836. The following year the exhibition moved to Burlington House in Piccadilly

The president of the Royal Academy Francis Grant exhibited a battle scene The Duke of Cambridge at the Battle of the Alma. Other works on display included Sisters by John Everett Millais and his Greenwich Pensioners at the Tomb of Nelson. William Powell Frith showed Before Dinner at Boswell's Lodging and She Stoops to Conquer. Medea by Frederick Sandys was accepted by the committee for display but never hung, possibly due to concerns about the subject matter. The Irish artist Daniel Maclise displayed The Sleep of Duncan, inspired by Shakespeare's Macbeth. John Everett Millais chose another Shakesperean theme Rosalnd and Celia based on As You Like It. While the painting is now untracted, a preparatory sketch Rosalind in the Forest is in the Walker Art Gallery. Frederick Richard Pickersgill showed the history painting Christopher Columbus at Lisbon. The landscape painting Bowman's Moss, Balmoral Forest by Peter Graham was a royal commission.

Gallery

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  Stella by John Everett Millais
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  Sisters by John Everett Millais
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  A Souvenir of Velasquez by John Everett Millais
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  Medea by Frederick Sandys
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  Rent Day in the Wilderness by Edwin Landseer
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  Jonathan's Token to David by Frederic Leighton
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  Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore by Frederic Leighton
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  An Interrupted Duel by Marcus Stone
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  The Catapult by Edward Poynter
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  Sterne and the French Innkeeper's Daughter by William Powell Frith
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  She Stoops to Conquer by William Powell Frith
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  Before Dinner at Boswell's Lodging, 1769 by William Powell Frith
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  Herod's Birthday Feast by Edward Armitage
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  Madeline after Prayer by Daniel Maclise
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  A Saint by Briton Riviere
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  The Life's Story by Charles West Cope
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  River Taw and the North Devon Railway, Near Barnstaple by Frederick Richard Lee
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  The Ferry Crossing by Frederick Richard Lee
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  The Moated Grange by Benjamin Williams Leader
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  The Investiture of the Sultan with the Order of the Garter by George Housman Thomas
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  Cromwell's First Appearance in Parliament by David Wilkie Wynfield
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  Rent Day at Haddon Hall by John Callcott Horsley
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  Mater Dolorosa by Frederick Goodall
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  The Flower of Dunblane by Thomas Faed
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  The Young Lord Hamlet by Philip Hermogenes Calderon
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  Whither? by Philip Hermogenes Calderon
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  Lady Jane Grey in the Tower by William Frederick Yeames
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  The Exiled Jacobite by Charles Sillem Lidderdale
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  Letters and News at the Loch Side by Henry Tanworth Wells
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  The Heights of the Abruzzi by William Linnell
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  Christmas Morning, 1866 by John Brett
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  Fish Auction at Newhaven by Keeley Halswelle
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  Chinese Ladies Looking at European Curiosities by John Evan Hodgson
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  The Meeting of Esau and Jacob by George Frederick Watts
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  Acme and Septimius by Frederic Leighton
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  The Wife of Pygmalion by George Frederick Watts
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  Azaleas by Albert Joseph Moore
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  Sigh No More, Ladies, Sigh No More by Arthur Hughes
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  The Shepherd's Revenge by Richard Ansdell
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  Calm on the Humber by Henry Redmore
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  Utilizing Church Metal by George Elgar Hicks
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  The Valley of Moses in the Desert of Sinai by John Rogers Herbert
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  Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus by Frederic Leighton
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  I Know a Maiden Fair to See by Charles Edward Perugini
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  Study of a Girl Reading by Valentine Cameron Prinsep
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  Smaller replica of Greenwich Pensioners at the Tomb of Nelson by John Everett Millais
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  Rosalind and Celia a print based on the painting by John Everett Millais
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  Portrait of Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford by George Richmond
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  Portrait of Sir Thomas Watson by George Richmond
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  Portrait of James Stansfeld by Henry Tanworth Wells
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  Portrait of Anthony Panizzi by George Frederic Watts
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  Portrait of William Johnson Fox by Eliza Bridell Fox
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  Portrait of Lord Stafford by John Prescott Knight
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  Portrait of Dighton Probyn by James Rannie Swinton
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  Earl of Bradford by Francis Grant
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  Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by William Theed

See also

• Salon of 1868, an art exhibition held in Paris

Bibliography

• Bartel, Heike. Unbinding Medea. Taylor & Francis, 2016.
• Murray, Peter. Daniel Maclise, 1806–1870: Romancing the Past. Crawford Art Gallery, 2009..
• Harrington, Peter. British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700-1914. Greenhill Books, 1993.