The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1852 was the eighty forth 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 1852 during the Victorian era. [1]
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It was the first exhibition to be held since the death of J.M.W. Turner, which was noted in several reviews. To some extent 1852 marked a changing of the guard, with the deaths of Turner and William Etty and the absence of established figures such as the President of the Royal Academy Charles Lock Eastlake and Edwin Landseer openining the way for younger painters, although the prominent Irish artist Daniel Maclise exhibited a large history painting featuring Alfred the Great. [2] This led to the growing prominence of artists associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais and Ford Madox Brown, several of whose paintings had been painted outdoors in a major departure from standard practice. [3]
Holman Hunt produced The Hireling Shepherd while Millais enjoyed success with Ophelia and A Huguenot while Madox Brown The Pretty Baa-Lambs / Millais also submitted a portrait of Emily Augusta Patmore. [4] Other portraits on display included Francis Grant's Portrait of the Young Disraeli . [5]
