Royal Academy Exhibition of 1862

William Powell Frith chose not to display his popular The Railway Station at the Royal Academy, instead exhibiting it elsewhere

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1862 was the ninety fourth annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery in London between 5 May and 26 July 1862.[1] William Powell Frith who has enjoyed great success with his 1858 work The Derby Day chose to exhibit his major new painting The Railway Station elsewhere in a blow to the Academy.[2] He did however submit a portrait of the fellow painter Thomas Creswick. Attention was also drawn away to the 1862 International Exhibition held in South Kensington, follow-up to the Great Exhibition of 1851.

The veteran painter of seascapes Clarkson Stanfield submitted a view of Stack Rock in Antrim[3] while his son George displayed a landscape of Limburg. Henry Wallis who had produced an iconic painting The Death of Chatterton several years before now showed The Death of Christopher Marlowe.[4] Thomas Jones Barker displayed The Dawn of Victory, a scene from the Indian Mutiny.[5]

Several works made reference to the 1860 Anglo-French expedition to China including Francis Grant's portraits of the diplomat Lord Elgin and his own brother general Sir Hope Grant. John Watson Gordon produced a portrait of the Prince of Wales for Oxford University.

References

Bibliography

  • Atlick, Richard Daniel. Paintings from Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760-1900. Ohio State University Press, 1986
  • Riding, Christine. John Everett Millais. Harry N. Abrams, 2006.
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