Royal Academy Exhibition of 1827

Chain Pier, Brighton by John Constable

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1827 was an art exhibition held by the British Royal Academy of Arts during the Regency era. The fifty ninth annual Summer Exhibition of the academy, it was staged at Somerset House in London between 7 May and 14 July 1827.

The President of the Royal Academy Thomas Lawrence exhibited a series of portrait paintings capturing prominent figures of the late Regency era. These included the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool and the Scottish writer Walter Scott. Two featuring female sitters Portrait of Julia, Lady Peel and Portrait of Rosamond Croker were widely praised and have been described as "masterpieces". His rival John Jackson showed a full-length portrait of the soldier and politician the Duke of Wellington.

John Constable sent in three landscape paintings these included his Parham Mill and a view of Hampstead Heath. The largest of these works was his Chain Pier, Brighton, featuring the recently opened landmark. The painting was the major production of his visit to Brighton on the Sussex coast for his wife's health.

One of the rising stars of British art, the animal painter Edwin Landseer exhibited works including The Monkey Who Had Seen the World. The York-born William Etty displayed The Parting of Hero and Leander.

Gallery

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  Portrait of Julia, Lady Peel by Thomas Lawrence
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  Portrait of Sir Walter Scott by Thomas Lawrence
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  Portrait of Lord Liverpool by Thomas Lawrence
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  Portrait of Rosamond Croker by Thomas Lawrence
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  Portrait of John Nash by Thomas Lawrence
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  Lillian by William Beechey
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  The Captive Slave by John Simpson
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  Vale of Health, Hampstead by John Constable
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  Port Ruysdael by J.M.W. Turner
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  Rembrandt's Daughter by J.M.W. Turner
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  Scene in Derbyshire by J.M.W. Turner
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  Mortlake Terrace, Evening by J.M.W. Turner
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  Now for the Painter (Rope) by J.M.W. Turner
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  View of the Thames Below Greenwich by Augustus Wall Callcott
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  Dead Calm by Augustus Wall Callcott
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  A Frost Scene by William Collins
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  The Parting of Hero and Leander by William Etty
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  The Monkey Who Had Seen the World by Edwin Landseer
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  The Deerstalkers' Return by Edwin Landseer
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  The Battle of Waterloo, The Retreat of the French by George Jones
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  Scene from Paul Pry by George Clint
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  Entrance to St Germain, Amiens by David Roberts
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  The Challenge of Rodomont to Rogero by Henry Perronet Briggs
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  Juliet and Her Nurse by Henry Perronet Briggs
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  Smolensko by James Ward
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  The Day's Sport by James Ward
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  Alexander the Great Taming Bucephalus by Benjamin Robert Haydon
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  Portrait of Admiral Edward Owen by Richard Evans
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  Portrait of Lady de Tabley by John Simpson

See also

• Salon of 1827, an exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris

Bibliography

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• Wellesley, Charles. Wellington Portrayed. Unicorn Press, 2014.