Royal Academy Exhibition of 1875

The Twenty Eighth Regiment at Quatre Bras by Elizabeth Thompson

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1875 was the hundred and seventh annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts which was held at Burlington House in London's Piccadilly between 3 May to 2 August 1875. It featured sunmissions from leading painters, sculptors and architects of the Victorian era. The Babylonian Marriage Market by Edwin Long was one of the most talked-about paintings on display and reflected the fashion for Orientalist subjecs, reflected in a number of works shown that year. Henry Wallis displayed Fugitives from Constantinople, depicting fleeing figures from the fallen Byzantine Empire in 1453 who would help power the Italian Renaissance.

John Everett Millais displayed his landscape painting The Fringe of the Moor as well as The Deserted Garden. Frederic Leighton was an influential figure at the exhibition, reflecting his growing dominance at the Royal Academy, which would lead to his election as President three years laters. Charles West Cope produced a depiction hanging committee's examination of submitted works for the 1875 exhibition in his painting The Council of the Royal Academy Selecting Pictures for the Exhibition, which he displayed at the subsequent Royal Academy Exhibition of 1876.

Gallery

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  The Sculpture Gallery by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
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  The Bunch of Lilacs by James Tissot
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  Hush! by James Tissot
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  A Modern Cinderella by Louise Jopling
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  Hearts of Oak by James Clarke Hook
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  Jacobites, 1745 by John Pettie
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  The Crown of Love by John Everett Millais
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  Miss Eveleen Tennant by John Everett Millais
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  The Charge of the French Cuirassiers at Waterloo by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux
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  The Waiting Maid by John Callcott Horsley
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  The Marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh by Nicholas Chevalier
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  The Babylonian Marriage Market by Edwin Long
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  The New Earrings by William Powell Frith
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  Polly Peachum by William Powell Frith
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  St Valentine's Day by William Powell Frith
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  War Time by Briton Rivière
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  Naval Review in Honour of the Shah of Persia by Edward William Cooke
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  Miranda by John William Waterhouse
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  London River, the Limehouse Barge-Builders by Charles Napier Hemy
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  The Battle Of Ligny by Ernest Crofts
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  The Last Muster by Hubert von Herkomer
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  Interior of the Grand Mosque, Damascus by Frederic Leighton
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  Margaret of Anjou Taken Prisoner After the Battle of Tewkesbury by John Gilbert
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  A Sheepshearing Match by Eyre Crowe
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  The Wetterhorn from Above Rosenlaui by Benjamin Williams Leader
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  Outside the Harbour by Henry Moore
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  The Festival by Edward Poynter
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  The Golden Age by Edward Poynter
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  Queen Victoria Presenting New Colours to the Cameron Highlanders by Sydney Prior Hall
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  Brig Drifting Ashore off Bamborough by Edwin Hayes
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  The Flower Girl by George Elgar Hicks
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  Reposing on God's Acre by Thomas Sidney Cooper
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  Woods and Forests by John Linnell
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  The Orphan of the Temple by Edward Matthew Ward
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  Scene in The Hal of the Wynd's Smith by John Pettie
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  Rachel and her Flock by Frederick Goodall
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  Queen Elizabeth and Essex by David Wilkie Wynfield
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  Pour les Pauvres by William Frederick Yeames
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  Summer, Noon by George Vicat Cole
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  Home from Gleaning by Valentine Cameron Prinsep
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  Little Fatima by Frederic Leighton
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  My Little Model by Henry Le Jeune
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  A Flower Walk by Albert Joseph Moore
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  Pansies by Albert Joseph Moore
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  The Anxious Mother by Richard Ansdell
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  Noble by Charles Burton Barber
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  The Last of the Garrison by Briton Riviere
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  Julian the Apostate Presiding at a Conference of Sectarians by Edward Armitage
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  The Conference between Mary, Queen of Scots and John Knox at Holyrood Palace by Robert Herdman
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  The Three Daughters of King Lear by Gustav Pope
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  Portrait of John Whyte-Melville by Francis Grant
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  Portrait of William Edward Forster by Henry Tanworth Wells
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  Portrait of Henry Stacy Marks by Walter William Ouless
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  Portrait of John Stuart Blackie by James Archer
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  Portrait of Eveline Lees by John Everett Millais
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  Portrait of Gracia Lees by John Everett Millais
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  Portrait of Mrs Gordon by Frederic Leighton
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  Portrait of Moses Montefiore by George Richmond
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  Portrait of Charles Parry by Henry Weigall
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  Portrait of Robert Dalglish by Daniel Macnee
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  Portrait of Princess Beatrice by Henry Richard Graves
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  Portrait of Jane Brand by Frederick Sandys
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  Portrait of Robert Browning by Rudolph Lehmann, a later version of the 1875 painting

See also

• Salon of 1875, a contemporary art exhibition held in Paris

Bibliography

• Armitage, Jill R. Edward Armitage RA: Battles in the Victorian Art World. Troubador Publishing, 2017.
• Marshall, Nancy Rose & Warner, Malcolm. James Tissot: Victorian Life, Modern Love. Yale University Press, 1999.
• Riding, Christine. Tate British Artists: John Everett Millais. Harry N. Abrams, 2006.