The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1845 was the seventy seventh annual Summer Exhibition organised by the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery in London between 5 May and 26 July 1845 and featured submissions from notable artists and architects from the early Victorian era. [1]
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J.M.W. Turner submitted a number of paintings including a number depicting views of Venice. He also displayed two paintings featuring scenes of whaling, probably with the hope of selling them to his patron Elhanan Bicknell who was involved in the trade. [2] Richard Redgrave enjoyed success with his genre painting The Governess . [3]
Clarkson Stanfield displayed The Capture of the El Gamo , a depiction of a naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars. [4] In addition he submitted his landscape Trajan's Arch, Ancona . [5] Francis Grant displayed several fashionable society portraits including one of the Anglo-Irish aristocrat the Marquess of Londonderry.
