Royal Academy Exhibition of 1868

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1868 was the hundredth annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held between 4 May and 23 July 1868. It was the last to be held at the National Gallery in London's Trafalgar Square, which had been the headquarters of the Royal Academy since it's move from its previous home Somerset House in 1836. ^[1] The following year the exhibition moved to Burlington House in Piccadilly

The president of the Royal Academy Francis Grant exhibited a battle scene The Duke of Cambridge at the Battle of the Alma . ^[2] Other works on display included Sisters by John Everett Millais ^[3] . And William Powell Frith's Before Dinner at Boswell's Lodging. Medea by Frederick Sandys was accepted by the committee for display but never hung, possibly due to concerns about the subject matter. ^[4] The Irish artist Daniel Maclise displayed The Sleep of Duncan, inspired by Shakespeare's Macbeth . ^[5]

Gallery

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  Stella by John Everett Millais
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  Sisters by John Everett Millais
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  Medea by Frederick Sandys
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  Before Dinner at Boswell's Lodging, 1769 by William Powell Frith
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  The Wife of Pygmalion by George Frederick Watts
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  Fish Auction at Newhaven by Keeley Halswelle
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  Azaleas by Albert Joseph Moore
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  Earl of Bradford by Francis Grant

See also

• Salon of 1868, an art exhibition held in Paris

References

1. https://chronicle250.com/1868
2. Harrington p.155
3. https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5701815#:~:text=Sisters%20was%20Millais's%20prime%20contribution,at%20auction%20in%20many%20years
4. Bartel p.96
5. Murray p.247

Bibliography

• Bartel, Heike. Unbinding Medea. Taylor & Francis, 2016.
• Murray, Peter. Daniel Maclise, 1806–1870: Romancing the Past. Crawford Art Gallery, 2009..
• Harrington, Peter. British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700-1914. Greenhill Books, 1993.