Royal Academy Exhibition of 1817

Flatford Mill by John Constable

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1817 was the forty ninth annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at Somerset House between 5 May and 28 June 1817, during the Regency era. ^[1]

John Constable exhibited four paintings including the landscape painting Wivenhoe Park featuring a picturesque scene in Essex, and a portrait of his friend John Fisher. ^[2] Thomas Lawrence, the leading portraitist of the period, displayed his Portrait of Lord Uxbridge featuring one of the most famous figures of the Battle of Waterloo. George Dawe submitted portraits of both Princess Charlotte of Wales and her new husband Prince Leopold.

The Scottish artist David Wilkie displayed a genre painting The Breakfast. ^[3] One of the most commented on works in the exhibition was The Court for the Trial of Queen Katharine by George Henry Harlow featuring Sarah Siddons and other members of the theatrical Kemble family performing in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII . ^[1] The Italian sculptor Antonio Canova displayed his statue Hebe.

Gallery

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  Wivenhoe Park by John Constable
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  A Cottage in a Cornfield by John Constable
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  The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire by J.M.W. Turner
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  Portrait of Lord Lynedoch by Thomas Lawrence
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  Portrait of Lord Uxbridge by Thomas Lawrence
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  The Pattison Brothers by Thomas Lawrence
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  Portrait of Mrs. Cuthbert by Thomas Lawrence
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  Portrait of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales by George Dawe
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  The Court for the Trial of Queen Katharine by George Henry Harlow
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  The Kitten Deceived by William Collins
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  Creimhild Throwing Herself on the Body of Siegfried by Henry Fuseli
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  The Descent of the Swan by James Ward
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  Andro' wi' His Cutty Gun by Alexander Carse
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  Tartar Robbers Dividing Their Spoil by William Allan
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  The Deserter Taken by William Kidd
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  Sans Souci by Thomas Stothard
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  The Bard by John Martin
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  The Battle of Waterloo by Denis Dighton
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  Charles Lenox Cumming-Bruce in Syrian Dress by Andrew Geddes
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  Portrait of John Fisher by John Constable
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  Portrait of Lord Exmouth by William Beechey
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  Portrait of Thomas Moore by Martin Archer Shee
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  Portrait of William Roscoe by Martin Archer Shee
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  Portrait of Joshua Brookes by Thomas Phillips
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  Portrait of Earl Fitzwilliam by William Owen
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  Portrait of Hugh Leycester by William Owen
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  Portrait of the Earl of Bridgewater by William Owen
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  Portrait of Harriet Arbuthnot by Thomas Lawrence
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  Portrait of Henry Fuseli by George Henry Harlow
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  Portrait of James Northcote by George Henry Harlow
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  Portrait of Isaac Dalby by John James Halls
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  Portrait of George Cockburn by John James Halls
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  Hebe by Antonio Canova

See also

• Salon of 1817, a French art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris

References

1. https://chronicle250.com/1817#:~:text=Among%20the%20seventy%2Done%20sculptural,his%20British%20rival%2C%20Francis%20Chantrey.
2. Reynolds p.181
3. Tromans p.10

Bibliography

• Bailey, Anthony. J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun. Tate Enterprises Ltd, 2013.
• Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life. Sceptre, 1998.
• Levey, Michael. Sir Thomas Lawrence. Yale University Press, 2005.
• Reynolds, Graham. Constable's England. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983.
• Solkin, David H. Painting Out of the Ordinary: Modernity and the Art of Everyday Life in Early Nineteenth-century Britain. Yale University Press, 2009.
• Tromans, Nicholas. David Wilkie: The People's Painter. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.