Royal Academy Exhibition of 1860

Pegwell Bay, Kent by William Dyce

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1860 was the ninety second annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square in London between 7 May and 28 July 1860 during the Victorian era. William Dyce attracted attention with his three submissions including the landscape Pegwell Bay, Kent.

John Everett Millais's The Black Brunswicker depicted a scene from the Napoleonic Wars and was aimed to appeal to critic, art collectors and the general public. His fellow Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt chose to exhibit his religious painting The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple in a private exhibition in Bond Street in direct competition with the Academy's show.

John Phillip displayed his royal commission The Marriage of Victoria, Princess Royal as well as Prayer, one of his Spanish-inspired paintings which was his diploma work on his election as a Royal Academician. George Elgar Hicks followed up his success at the previous year's exhibition Dividend Day at the Bank of England with a similar scene The General Post Office, One Minute to Six. William Powell Frith displayed the genre painting Claude Duval while Richard Ansdell 's Buy a Dog Ma'am? showed a scene of London life.

Gallery

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  The Black Brunswicker by John Everett Millais
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  The Marriage of Victoria, Princess Royal by John Phillip
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  Prayer by John Phillip
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  The General Post Office, One Minute to Six by George Elgar Hicks
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  Flood in the Highlands by Edwin Landseer
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  Interior of the Cathedral, Pisa by David Roberts
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  A Street in Antwerp by David Roberts
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  Wheat by John Linnell
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  Atop of the Hill by John Linnell
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  Claude Duval by William Powell Frith
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  The Piazzetta, Venice by Edward William Cooke
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  Bella Venezia by Edward William Cooke
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  Capri, Sunrise by Frederic Leighton
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  The Hedger by John Brett
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  Man of Sorrows by William Dyce
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  Huy on the Meuse by George Clarkson Stanfield
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  At the Piano by James McNeill Whistler
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  Quiet Valley Among the Welsh Hills by Benjamin Williams Leader
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  The Poet Chatterton by John Joseph Barker
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  A Relic of Old Times by Thomas Creswick
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  Showing a Preference by John Calcott Horsley
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  Sheridan Assisting Miss Linley on Her Flight from Bath by Jerry Barrett
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  The Mother of Moses by Simeon Solomon
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  Matilda by George Dunlop Leslie
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  Manning the Navy by George Bernard O'Neill
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  Una and the Lion by William Bell Scott
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  The Governess by Emily Mary Osborn
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  Early Morning in the Wilderness of Shur by Frederick Goodall
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  The Lost Shepherd by Richard Ansdell
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  Hesperus by Joseph Noel Paton
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  Early Effort by Robert Hawker Dowling
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  The Volunteers by Frederick Daniel Hardy
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  The Coliseum at Rome by Moonlight by Frederick Lee Bridell
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  A Volunteer by Henry Nelson O'Neil
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  The Tuileries, 1792 by Alfred Elmore
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  Peg Woffington's Visit to Triplet by Rebecca Solomon
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  Portrait of Leopold McClintock by Stephen Pearce
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  William Robert Hobson by Stephen Pearce
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  Sir Henry Hoare by John Prescott Knight
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  William Gilpin by George Richmond
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  Leonard Redmayne by Philip Westcott
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  Duke of Argyll by George Frederic Watts
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  Mrs Cavendish-Bentinck and Her Children by George Frederic Watts
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  Joseph Warner Henley by Francis Grant

Bibliography

• Donald, Diana. Picturing Animals in Britain, 1750–1850. Yale University Press, 2007.
• Riding, Christine. John Everett Millais. Harry N. Abrams, 2006.