Royal Academy Exhibition of 1840

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1840 was the seventy second annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery in London from 4 May to 24 July 1840 and featured submissions from leading painters, sculptors and architects of the early Victorian era.[1]

J.M.W. Turner submitted a series of paintings including landscape scenes of Venice and Naples. One of his more unusual works was The Slave Ship which showed the crew of a slaver throwing their enslaved prisoners overboard in a scene likely inspired by the eighteenth century Zong massacre.[2] Edwin Landseer, a specialist in animal paintings, featured a number of works including Laying Down the Law. One of his best-known paintings it shows a group of dogs who resemble the proceedings of an English court of law.[3]

Francis Grant, an emerging Scottish portrait painter, displayed Queen Victoria Riding Out featuring Queen Victoria and her Prime Minister Lord Melbourne at Windsor.[4] David Wilkie submitted his own Portrait of Queen Victoria to a hostile critical reception.

See also

  • Salon of 1840, a contemporary French exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris

References

Bibliography

  • Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life. Sceptre, 1998.
  • Herrmann, Luke. J.M.W. Turner. Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • Murray, Peter. Daniel Maclise, 1806-1870: Romancing the Past. Crawford Art Gallery, 2009.
  • Ormond, Richard. Sir Edwin Landseer. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1981.
  • Shanes, Eric. The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner. Parkstone International, 2012.
  • Tromans, Nicholas. David Wilkie: The People's Painter. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
  • Weston, Nancy. Daniel Maclise: Irish Artist in Victorian London. Four Courts Press, 2009.
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