Royal Academy Exhibition of 1872

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1872 was the 104th annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts held at Burlington House in London from 6 May to 5 August 1872. It was the largest held so far with 1,600 works from artists and architects of the Victorian era and attracted over 260,000 visitors.[1] Francis Grant presided over the event as President of the Royal Academy.

The millionaire art collector Alfred Morrison acquired a number of works from the exhibition, including Frederic Leighton's Summer Moon and Henry William Banks Davis's A Panic. John Gilbert was criticised in The Times for the perceived poor quality of his history painting. King Charles I Leaving Westminster Hall. However, Luke Fildes enjoyed success with his debut submission Fair Quiet and Sweet Rest.[2] William Powell Frith, one of the mainstays of the academy, sent in a number of paintings including At My Window, Boulogne and Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn Deer Shooting in Windsor Forest.[3] Another veteran Edwin Landseer exhibited Lady Emily Peel with her Favourite Dogs, a work first commissioned in the 1840s.[4]

John Everett Millais displayed the landscape painting Flowing to the Sea and its companion piece Flowing to the River.

References

Bibliography

  • Ormond, Richard. The Monarch of the Glen: Landseer in the Highlands. National Galleries of Scotland, 2005.
  • Trotter, David. William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age. Yale University Press, 2006.
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