The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1823 was an art exhibition held at Somerset House in London. Running from 5 May to 12 July 1823. It was the fifty fifth annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy.
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Several of the paintings were inspired by the Visit of George IV to Scotland the previous year. [1] J.M.W. Turner, who had started but abandoned a planned series of paintings depicting the royal visit, instead sent in the landscape painting The Bay of Baiae . Inspired by his 1819 visit to Italy, it combines a depiction of the Bay of Baiae and a scene drawn from Roman mythology. [2] [3] John Constable displayed Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds , a view that became one of his favourites and one that he repeated several times with variations. [4]
David Wilkie submitted the genre painting The Parish Beadle , which had been commissioned by the Home Secretary Robert Peel. [5] He also displayed at portrait of the Duke of York, the brother of the King and heir to the throne. Thomas Phillips also exhibited a full-length portrait of the Duke. The President of the Royal Academy Sir Thomas Lawrence featured a range of fashionable Regency portraits. This included his Portrait of Frederick Robinson , featuring the politician and future Prime Minister.
Charles Lock Eastlake, a future President of the Academy and then based in Rome, sent in The Colosseum from the Campo Vaccino
