Royal Academy Exhibition of 1853

Our English Coasts by William Holman Hunt

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1853 was the eighty fifth annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square in London between 2 May and 23 July 1853.

The exhibition further cemented the presence of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as a major force in British art. William Holman Hunt's Our English Coasts, depicting a group of sheep on a clifftop, had taken him six months painting En plein air to complete. He also displayed Claudio and Isabella, inspired by William Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure. Meanwhile John Everett Millais presented two history paintings The Proscribed Royalist, inspired by the War of the Three Kingdoms as The Order of Release, featuring a scene from the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion.

Amongst veteran artists who has established their reputations in the pre-Victorian era Edwin Landseer submitted several works. Clarkson Stanfield exhibited his maritime painting The Victory Towed into Gibraltar set during the Napoleonic Wars. The Scottish artist David Roberts's The Inauguration of the Great Exhibition commemorated Queen Victoria's opening of the Crystal Palace two years earlier. Several paintings commemorated the Duke of Wellington who had died the previous year, while Stephen Pearce painted The Arctic Council Planning a Search for Sir John Franklin.

Gallery

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  Claudio and Isabella by William Holman Hunt
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  The Proscribed Royalist, 1651 by John Everett Millais
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  The Order of Release, 1746 by John Everett Millais
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  The Victory Towed into Gibraltar by Clarkson Stanfield
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  The Interior of Saint Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna by David Roberts
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  The Inauguration of the Great Exhibition by David Roberts
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  Venice by David Roberts
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  San Giorgio Maggiore and the Salute, Venice by Edward William Cooke
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  The Pier and Bay of St. Ives by Edward William Cooke
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  Love's Labour's Lost by Edward William Cooke
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  The Execution of the Marquis of Montrose by Edward Matthew Ward
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  Josephine Signing the Act of Her Divorce by Edward Matthew Ward
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  Wellington at Sorauren by Thomas Jones Barker
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  Night (Two Stags Battling by Moonlight) by Edwin Landseer
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  Morning by Edwin Landseer
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  The Village Post Office by William Frederick Witherington
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  The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel by William Dyce
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  Boaz and Ruth by Charles Lock Eastlake
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  The Lost Path by Richard Redgrave
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  Caspar and Duck by Alfred Hitchens Corbould
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  The Sick Lamb by Richard Ansdell
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  Sophia and Olivia by Thomas Faed
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  The Rising Moon by Arthur Gilbert
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  Lady Jane Grey and Roger Ascham by John Callcott Horsley
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  Canterbury from Tonford by Thomas Sidney Cooper
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  Catherine's Dream by Henry Nelson O'Neil
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  By the Waters of Babylon by Philip Hermogenes Calderon
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  Under the Hawthorn by John Linnell
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  How Shepherds Lose Their Sheep Signed by Thomas Danby
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  Metastasio as a Child is Discovered by Gravina Singing by Robert McInnes
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  Juliet and the Friar by William James Grant
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  The Pearl of Triana by John Phillip
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  His Last Return from Duty by James William Glass
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  An Episode in the Happier Days of Charles I by Frederick Goodall
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  The Sirens by Victor Mottez
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  The Arctic Council Planning a Search for Sir John Franklin by Stephen Pearce
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  William Penny by Stephen Pearce
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  Edward Augustus Inglefield by Stephen Pearce
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  John Rae by Stephen Pearce
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  Lord Campbell by Francis Grant
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  Duke of Portland by Francis Grant
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  Marchioness of Londonderry by Francis Grant
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  Eliza Seymour by Claude Jacquand
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  George Dawson by John Prescott Knight
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  Walter Savage Landor by William Boxall
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  Sir John Bent by Philip Westcott
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  Elkanah Armitage by George Patten
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  George Wilson by George Patten
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  William Wills Hooper by Richard Augustus Clack
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  Charles James Napier by Edwin Williams
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  Warren Stormes Hale by John Robert Dicksee

See also

• Salon of 1853, contemporary French art exhibition

Bibliography

• Murray, Peter. Daniel Maclise, 1806-1870: Romancing the Past. Crawford Art Gallery, 2009.
• Riding, Christine. John Everett Millais. Harry N. Abrams, 2006.
• Van der Merwe, Pieter & Took, Roger. The Spectacular Career of Clarkson Stanfield. Tyne and Wear County Council Museums, 1979.