The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1864 was the ninety sixth Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square in London between 2 May and 30 July 1864. It took place during the Victorian era and featured many prominent artists and sculptors of the period, although there were several notable absentees including Daniel Maclise who was busy working on his mural for the Palace of Westminster. This left an opening for rising artists of the younger generation to make their mark. [1]
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Henry Nelson O'Neil exhibited his royal commission The Landing of Princess Alexandra at Gravesend , commemorating the wedding of the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra the previous year. [2] William Powell Frith was too busy working on his own painting The Marriage of the Prince of Wales , commissioned by Queen Victoria, to send in anything to the Royal Academy. [1]
Edwin Landseer's Man Proposes, God Disposes displayed an Arctic maritime disaster, inspired by Franklin's lost expedition that perished during the search for the Northwest Passage. [3] French artist James Tissot exhibited the work At the Break of Day. [4]
