Royal Academy Exhibition of 1845

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1845 was the seventy seventh annual Summer Exhibition organised by the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery in London between 5 May and 26 July 1845 and featured submissions from notable artists and architects from the early Victorian era.^[1]

J.M.W. Turner submitted a number of paintings including a number depicting views of Venice. He also displayed two paintings featuring scenes of whaling, probably with the hope of selling them to his patron Elhanan Bicknell who was involved in the trade.^[2] Richard Redgrave enjoyed success with his genre painting The Governess.^[3]

Clarkson Stanfield displayed The Capture of the El Gamo, a depiction of a naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars.^[4] In addition he submitted his landscape Trajan's Arch, Ancona.^[5] Francis Grant displayed several fashionable society portraits including one of the Anglo-Irish aristocrat the Marquess of Londonderry.

• The United Service by Andrew Morton
• Whalers by J.M.W. Turner
• Whalers by J.M.W. Turner
• Going to the Ball by J.M.W. Turner
• Returning from the Ball by J.M.W. Turner
• Venice, Noon by J.M.W. Turner
• Venice, Sunset, a Fisher by J.M.W. Turner
• The Arrival of the King of France in Portsmouth by John Christian Schetky
• The Eve of the Battle of Edgehill by Charles Landseer
• Ruins of the Great Temple at Karnak by David Roberts
• Trajan's Arch, Ancona by Clarkson Stanfield
• The Market Cart at a Brook by Frederick Richard Lee
• Les Femmes Savantes by Charles Robert Leslie
• Procession of the Law by Solomon Hart
• A Dame's School by Thomas Webster
• The Governess by Richard Redgrave
• Aurora and Zephyr by William Etty
• The Battle of Cape St Vincent by William Allan
• The Maréchal Biron Conspiracy by George Lance
• Doctor Johnson Waiting for an Audience by Edward Matthew Ward
• The Shepherd's Prayer by Edwin Landseer
• Saint Gregory Teaching His Chant by John Rogers Herbert
• The Winter's Tale by Augustus Leopold Egg
• The Wood Nymph's Hymn to the Rising Sun by Francis Danby
• The Village Pastor by William Powell Frith
• Amoret, Aemylia and Prince Arthur, in the Cottage of Sclaunder by Frederick Richard Pickersgill
• Jeanie Deans and the Queen by James Godsell Middleton
• The Israelites Passing through the Wilderness, Preceded by the Pillar of Light by William West
• Road Through a Forest by James Stark
• Sabrina and the Nymphs by William Edward Frost
• Scene in a Tent at Xanthus by William James Müller
• Alexander Brunton by John Watson Gordon
• Edward Ramsay by John Watson Gordon
• Thomas De Quincey by John Watson Gordon
• William Nott by Thomas Brigstocke
• John Scott Porter by Richard Rothwell
• Patrick Fraser Tytler by Margaret Sarah Carpenter
• Henrietta Baillie by Margaret Sarah Carpenter
• Richard Hotham Pigeon by John Prescott Knight
• Abel Chapman by Andrew Morton
• Earl of Powis by Francis Grant
• James Keith Fraser by Francis Grant
• Charles Babbage by Samuel Laurence
• George Stephenson by Henry William Pickersgill
• Richard Owen by Henry William Pickersgill
• Philip Charles Durham by John Wood
• George Cockburn by John Lucas
• Augustus Pugin by John Rogers Herbert
• Lady de Tabley and Her Daughter by James Rannie Swinton

• Royal Academy Exhibition of 1844, the previous year's exhibition
• Salon of 1845, a contemporary French exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris

• Bailey, Anthony. J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun. Tate Enterprises Ltd, 2013.
• Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life. Sceptre, 1998.
• Hughes, Kathryn. The Victorian Governess. Bloomsbury, 2001.
• Tomlinson, Barbara. Commemorating the Seafarer: Monuments, Memorials and Memory. Boydell Press, 2015.
• Van der Merwe, Pieter & Took, Roger. The Spectacular Career of Clarkson Stanfield. Tyne and Wear County Council Museums, 1979.