The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1857 was the eighty ninth annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery in London between 4 May and 25 July 1857. It coincided with the large Manchester Art Treasures exhibition, while several major artists were too busy working on the redecoration of the rebuilt Houses of Parliament to produce paintings for the Royal Academy, although Daniel Maclise submitted Peter the Great at Deptford Dockyard . [1]
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The Pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais exhibited three works including News from Home, a scene from the Crimean War. His imagined history painting Sir Isumbras at the Ford divided critical opinion with his former supporter John Ruskin describing it as a "catastrophe". [1] David Roberts submitted several cityscapes including The Piazza Navona at Rome. Clarkson Stanfield's maritime and landscape paintings included views of Saint-Jean-de-Luz in France and the Giant's Causeway in Ireland as well as Calm, in the Gulf of Salerno . [2] William Powell Frith was working on his epic The Derby Day and displayed two smaller works A London Flower Girl and Kate Nickleby at Madame Mantalini's, based on the novel Nicholas Nickleby by his friend Charles Dickens. [3]
Emily Mary Osborn attracted interest for her genre painting Nameless and Friendless showing a struggling young female artist trying to sell her work. [4] The American artist Jasper Francis Cropsey, part of the Hudson River School, displayed An Indian Summer Morning in the White Mountains. [5] In portraiture, Margaret Sarah Carpenter's Portrait of John Gibson featured the well-known sculptor. [6] The future President of the Royal Academy Francis Grant sent in Portrait of Daisy Grant depicted his daughter against a snow-covered background. [7]
