Royal Academy Exhibition of 1844

Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway by J.M.W. Turner

Royal Academy Exhibition of 1844 was the seventy sixth annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery in London from 6 May to 27 July and featured submissions from leading painters, sculptors and architects of the early Victorian era.

The best-known painting to feature in the exhibition was Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed showing crossing the Great Western Railway's recently opened Maidenhead Railway Bridge, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Amongst the other six oil paintings Turner displayed were three scenes of Venice, a major theme of his work during the period.

Edwin Landseer, known for his animal paintings, submitted Shoeing and The Otter Speared, the later a depiction of an otter hunt in Scotland commissioned by the politician Lord Aberdeen. William Collins displayed the landscape paintings Seaford, Sussex and Morning, Boulogne. The French artist Paul Delaroche exhibited a religious painting.

The President of the Royal Academy Martin Archer Shee displayed a portrait of the veteran radical politician Sir Francis Burdett.

Gallery

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  Ostend by J.M.W. Turner
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  Fishing Boats Bringing a Disabled Ship into Port Ruysdael by J.M.W. Turner
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  Van Tromp, Going About to Please His Masters by J.M.W. Turner
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  Venice, Maria della Salute by J.M.W. Turner
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  Approach to Venice by J.M.W. Turner
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  Venice Quay, Ducal Palace by J.M.W. Turner
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  Shoeing by Edwin Landseer
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  The Otter Speared by Edwin Landseer
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  Seaford, Sussex by William Collins
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  Morning, Boulogne by William Collins
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  The Morning after the Wreck by Clarkson Stanfield
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  Oude Scheld – Texel Island by Clarkson Stanfield
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  A Devon Lane by Frederick Richard Lee
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  Sancho Panza in the Apartment of the Duchess by Charles Robert Leslie
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  Sir Walter Scott Dictating to His Daughter by William Allan
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  The Visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to Hawthornden by William Allan
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  A Scene from Milton's Comus by Daniel Maclise
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  A Scene from Undine by Daniel Maclise
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  The Sempstress by Richard Redgrave
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  The Young Mother's Pastime by Richard Rothwell
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  Palpitation by Charles West Cope
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  Eve at the Fountain by William Etty
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  Mendicants of the Roman Campagna by Edward Villiers Rippingille
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  The Painter's Holiday by Francis Danby
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  Claverhouse Ordering Morton to be Carried Out and Shot by Robert Scott Lauder
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  Poor Louise by Robert Scott Lauder
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  Sir Thomas More and his Daughter by John Rogers Herbert
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  The Trial of the Seven Bishops by John Rogers Herbert
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  Naomi with her Daughters-in-Law by Henry Nelson O'Neil
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  The Mall, Kensington Gravel Pits by William Mulready
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  Scene on the Tummel, Perthshire by Thomas Creswick
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  A Summer's Afternoon by Thomas Creswick
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  Stepping Stones on the Machno, North Wales by William Frederick Witherington
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  Church of St Pierre, Caen by David Roberts
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  King Joash Shooting the Arrow of Deliverance by William Dyce
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  John Knox Reproving Mary, Queen of Scots by William Powell Frith
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  Carolan, the Irish Bard by James Christopher Timbrell
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  La Fleur's departure from Montreuil by Edward Matthew Ward
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  The Devil Upon Two Sticks by Augustus Egg
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  The Trial of the Earl of Strafford by Thomas Woolnoth
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  Alderman Anthony Brown by Samuel Lane
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  Portrait of William Allen by Henry Perronet Briggs
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  Portrait of Thomas Turton by Henry William Pickersgill
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  Portrait of Louis Philippe by George Peter Alexander Healy
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  Portrait of Thomas Carlyle by John Linnell
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  Portrait of William Coningham by John Linnell
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  Portrait of Alexander Nasmyth by Francis Grant
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  Portrait of Sir Francis Burdett by Martin Archer Shee
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  Portrait of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha by John Lucas
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  Portrait of Victoria, Duchess of Kent by John Lucas
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  Portrait of Count Mensdorff-Pouilly by John Lucas
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  Portrait of the Earl of Derby by Frederick Richard Say

See also

• Royal Academy Exhibition of 1843, the previous year's exhibition
• Salon of 1844, a contemporary French exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris

Bibliography

• Bailey, Anthony. J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun. Tate Enterprises Ltd, 2013.
• Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life. Sceptre, 1998.
• Ormond, Richard. Sir Edwin Landseer. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1981.
• Kennedy, Ian G. & Treuherz, Julian. The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam. Yale University Press, 2008.
• Roe, Sonia. Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Public Catalogue Foundation, 2008.
• Shanes, Eric. The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner. Parkstone International, 2012.