The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1872 was the 104th annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts held at Burlington House in London from 6 May to 5 August 1872. It was the largest held so far with 1,600 works from artists and architects of the Victorian era and attracted over 260,000 visitors. [1] Francis Grant presided over the event as President of the Royal Academy.
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The millionaire art collector Alfred Morrison acquired a number of works from the exhibition, including Frederic Leighton's Summer Moon and Henry William Banks Davis's A Panic. John Gilbert was criticised in The Times for the perceived poor quality of his history painting. King Charles I Leaving Westminster Hall. However, Luke Fildes enjoyed success with his debut submission Fair Quiet and Sweet Rest. [2] William Powell Frith, one of the mainstays of the academy, sent in a number of paintings including At My Window, Boulogne and Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn Deer Shooting in Windsor Forest. [3] Another veteran Edwin Landseer exhibited Lady Emily Peel with her Favourite Dogs, a work first commissioned in the 1840s. [4]
John Everett Millais displayed the landscape painting Flowing to the Sea and its companion piece Flowing to the River.
