The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1862 was the ninety fourth annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery in London between 5 May and 26 July 1862. [1] William Powell Frith who has enjoyed great success with his 1858 work The Derby Day chose to exhibit his major new painting The Railway Station elsewhere in a blow to the Academy. [2] He did however submit a portrait of the fellow painter Thomas Creswick. Attention was also drawn away to the 1862 International Exhibition held in South Kensington, follow-up to the Great Exhibition of 1851.
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The veteran painter of seascapes Clarkson Stanfield submitted a view of Stack Rock in Antrim [3] while his son George displayed a landscape of Limburg. Henry Wallis who had produced an iconic painting The Death of Chatterton several years before now showed The Death of Christopher Marlowe. [4] Thomas Jones Barker displayed The Dawn of Victory, a scene from the Indian Mutiny. [5]
Several works made reference to the 1860 Anglo-French expedition to China including Francis Grant's portraits of the diplomat Lord Elgin and his own brother general Sir Hope Grant. John Watson Gordon produced a portrait of the Prince of Wales for Oxford University.
