Royal Academy Exhibition of 1895

Flaming June by Frederic Leighton

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1895 was the hundred and twenty seventh annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at Burlington House in London's Piccadilly between 6 May and 5 August 1895 and drew over three hundred thousand visitors. It featured works by leading artists and architects of the late Victorian era. It was the final exhibition of the President of the Royal Academy Frederic Leighton who died in January of the following year. Leighton still managed to submit six paintings that for the exhibition. ^[1] Amongst the works Leighton displayed is one of his most famous Flaming June . ^[2]

As Leighton was too ill to attend the customary dinner held before the opening of the exhibition, John Everett Millais deputised for him at the event which was attended by the Prince of Wales, the Prime Minister Lord Rosebery as well as the writers Arthur Conan Doyle and Arthur Wing Pinero. ^[3] Millais, who would go on to succeed Leighton as president, himself exhibited the works Saint Stephen and Speak! Speak!. Elizabeth Thompson displayed Dawn of Waterloo and Richard Caton Woodville presented the Charge of the Light Brigade.

Gallery

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  Twixt Hope and Fear by Frederic Leighton
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  Lachrymae by Frederic Leighton
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  The Maid with the Golden Hair by Frederic Leighton
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  Saint Stephen by John Everett Millais
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  Speak! Speak! by John Everett Millais
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  A Disciple by John Everett Millais
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  Spring by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
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  The Shrine by John William Waterhouse
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  Saint Cecilia by John William Waterhouse
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  Napoleon on the Sands at Boulogne, 1805by Andrew Carrick Gow
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  The Last Furrow by Henry Herbert La Thangue
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  Defendant and Counsel by William Frederick Yeames
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  The Ionian Dance by Edward Poynter
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  Jonah by George Frederic Watts
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  The Water Mill by Ernest Waterlow
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  Morning by Patrick William Adam
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  The Children of Charles I by Margaret Isabel Dicksee
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  Good Night to Skye by Colin Hunter
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  Il Campo SS Giovanni e Paolo, Venice by Henry Woods
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  The Death of Albine by John Collier
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  Joan of Arc by George William Joy
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  Dawn of Waterloo by Elizabeth Thompson
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  In a Dublin Park by Walter Osborne
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  Wailing Place, Jerusalem by George Sherwood Hunter
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  The Opening of Tower Bridge by William Lionel Wyllie
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  A Mountain Pass by Andrew Carrick Gow
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  Thomas Carlyle Looking at the Duke of Buccleuch's Miniatures by Eyre Crowe
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  In 1816 by Edmund Leighton
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  English Cottage Homes by Benjamin Williams Leader
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  Daphne by Arthur Hacker
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  The Farmer's Boy by George Clausen
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  Mrs. Roberts by George Clausen
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  Mrs. Hills by John Singer Sargent
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  Mrs. Cooke by John Singer Sargent
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  Coventry Patmore by John Singer Sargent
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  Walford Graham Robertson by John Singer Sargent
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  Mrs. James by Luke Fildes
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  William Rogers by Arthur Stockdale Cope
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  Lowthian Bell by Henry Tanworth Wells

See also

• Salon of 1895, a contemporary art exhibition held in Paris

References

1. "1895 Frederic Leighton's Last Academy". chronicle250.com. Retrieved Sep 14, 2025.
2. Toll p.73
3. Freeman p.118

Bibliography

• Freeman, Nicholas. 1895: Drama, Disaster and Disgrace in Late Victorian Britain. Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
• Toll, Simon. Herbert Draper, 1863-1920: A Life Study. Antique Collectors' Club, 2003.