The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1841 was the seventy third annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery in London from 3 May to 24 July 1841 and featured submissions from leading painters, sculptors and architects of the early Victorian era. A critic lamented the absence of the late John Constable and other figures such as Augustus Wall Callcott. [1]
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By the final decade of his career, Turner was Britain's leading artists and his annual submissions were often the most-discussed paintings of the exhibition. In 1841 he displayed six oil paintings several inspired by a recent trip to Venice. Amongst them was the German landscape Schloss Rosenau , an attempt to win royal patronage as it was the family residence of Queen Victoria's new consort Prince Albert. [2]
Irish artist Daniel Maclise displayed the large painting The Sleeping Beauty. [3] William Etty enjoyed success with the biblical scene he Repentant Prodigal's Return to his Father. [4] The President of the Royal Academy Sir Martin Archer Shee was amongst several portraitists to submit work. In sculpture Francis Chantrey displayed statues of two prominent bishops. [5]
