Royal Academy Exhibition of 1840

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Queen Victoria Riding Out by Francis Grant

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1840 was the seventy second annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery in London from 4 May to 24 July 1840 and featured submissions from leading painters, sculptors and architects of the early Victorian era. [1]

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J.M.W. Turner submitted a series of paintings including landscape scenes of Venice and Naples. One of his more unusual works was The Slave Ship which showed the crew of a slaver throwing their enslaved prisoners overboard in a scene likely inspired by the eighteenth century Zong massacre. [2] Edwin Landseer, a specialist in animal paintings, featured a number of works including Laying Down the Law . One of his best-known paintings it shows a group of dogs who resemble the proceedings of an English court of law. [3]

Francis Grant, an emerging Scottish portrait painter, displayed Queen Victoria Riding Out featuring Queen Victoria and her Prime Minister Lord Melbourne at Windsor. [4]

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