Royal Academy Exhibition of 1863

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1863 was the ninety fifth Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery in London from 4 May to 25 July 1863. The former Pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais exhibited The Eve of St Agnes.^[1]

David Roberts exhibited a number of works. These included views of the River Thames St Paul's Looking East and St Paul's Looking West.^[2] Other paintings on display included The Coronation of the King of Prussia by George Housman Thomas, commissioned by Queen Victoria. ^[3] Charles Lucy featured a depiction of the reconciliation between Gainsborough and Reynolds, founding members of the Academy and longer-term rivals. Several of the group who became known as the St John's Wood Clique displayed scenes from British history.^[4]

• Milan Cathedral by David Roberts
• Church of St Stephen's, Vienna by David Roberts
• The Eve of St Agnes by John Everett Millais
• My First Sermon by John Everett Millais
• The Wolf's Den by John Everett Millais
• The First Music Lesson by Charles West Cope
• Agua Bendita by John Phillip
• Juliet by William Powell Frith
• On the Road from Waterloo to Paris by Marcus Stone
• The Last of Old Westminster by James McNeill Whistler
• The Morning after Trafalgar by Clarkson Stanfield
• Charlotte Corday in the Prison of the Conciergerie by Edward Matthew Ward
• Hogarth's Studio in 1739 by Edward Matthew Ward
• The Morning of St Valentine by John Callcott Horsley
• A Tea Party by Thomas Webster
• Jezebel and Ahab by Frederic Leighton
• A Girl with a Basket of Fruit by Frederic Leighton
• A Girl Feeding Peacocks by Frederic Leighton
• An Italian Crossbow Man by Frederic Leighton
• Woman's Mission, Companion of Manhood by George Elgar Hicks
• Changing Homes by George Elgar Hicks
• The Meeting of Thomas More with His Daughter by William Frederick Yeames
• Judith and Holofernes by John Rogers Herbert
• A Day Dream by Edward Poynter
• Lucrezia Borgia by Alfred Elmore
• The Silken Gown by Thomas Faed
• Andernach by George Jones
• Il Barbagianni by Valentine Cameron Prinsep
• Where the Trout Lies by Frederick Richard Lee
• My Lady and Her Children by John Callcott Horsley
• The Last Chapter by Robert Braithwaite Martineau
• The Marriage of Princess Alice by George Housman Thomas
• The Coronation of the King of Prussia by George Housman Thomas
• A Frank Encampment in the Desert of Mount Sinai by John Frederick Lewis
• The Census of 1861 by Charles Landseer
• Leaving at Low Water by James Clarke Hook
• Lagoon of the Guayaquil River by Louis Remy Mignot
• Lord Palmerston Addressing the House of Commons by John Phillip
• Home from the Sea by Arthur Hughes
• The Holy Family Returned from Egypt by William Charles Thomas Dobson
• Public Opinion by George Bernard O'Neill
• Vivien by Frederick Sandys
• Roman Beggars by Rudolf Lehmann
• A Danish Fisherman's Courtship by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann
• Robespierre Receiving Letters from Friends of his Victims with Assassination Threats by William Henry Fisk
• O'er the Muir Among the Heather by William Linnell
• The Army on the March, The Rearguard with the Baggage Wagons by John Gilbert
• The Christian Martyr by Edward Armitage
• A Shepherd of Jerusalem by William James Webbe
• Ferdinand and Miranda by Frederick Richard Pickersgill
• Madame Lehmann by Henri Lehmann
• Portrait of Susanna Rose by Frederick Sandys
• Andrew Lusk by Thomas Mackinlay
• William Preston by John Ewart Robertson
• William Baly by John Prescott Knight
• Lord Taunton by William Menzies Tweedie
• Thomas Edward Laws Moore by Stephen Pearce
• Stephen Lushington by William Holman Hunt
• Lord Palmerston by William Thomas Roden
• Lord Palmerston by Ebenezer Butler Morris
• Charles Thomas Longley by George Richmond

• Salon of 1863, contemporary art exhibition held in Paris

• Ormond, Richard. Sir Edwin Landseer. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1981.
• Riding, Christine. John Everett Millais. Harry N. Abrams, 2006.