Royal Academy Exhibition of 1842

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1842 was an art exhibition held at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square in London between 2 May and 23 July 1842. It was the seventy fourth annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It took place during the early Victorian era and featured submissions from leading painters, sculptors and architects of the period.

Peace – Burial at Sea by J.M.W. Turner

The greatest attention was drawn by five paintings by J.M.W. Turner. These included two cityscapes of Venice and Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth.^{[1] [2]} His War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet showing Napoleon under British guard in exile on the island of Saint Helena was almost universally savaged by critics, although the praise of Turner's admirer John Ruskin. ^[3]

It was the first exhibition to be held since the death of David Wilkie, a leading member of the Academy for several decades, who has died near Gibraltar while travelling back from the Holy Land. His friend Turner paid tribute to him with his painting Peace – Burial at Sea. Another friend William Collins, who had named his son Wilkie Collins in his honour, displayed a picture of Wilkie's Kensington house.^[4] Several of Wilkie's paintings from his trip were shown posthumously including the Portrait of Abdülmecid I and Portrait of Muhammad Ali of Egypt.^[5] After a period of absence Edwin Landseer returned to the Academy after several years absence, displaying works he had produced for Queen Victoria. Crossing the Ford, the only work sent in by the Irish artist William Mulready, was one of the most popular paintings on display. Daniel Maclise sent in the large theatrical canvas The Play Scene in Hamlet.^[6]

Gallery

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  The Dogano, San Giorgio, Citella, from the Steps of the Europa by J.M.W. Turner
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  Campo Santo by J.M.W. Turner
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  Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth by J.M.W. Turner
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  War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet by J.M.W. Turner
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  Portrait of Abdülmecid I by David Wilkie
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  Portrait of Muhammad Ali of Egypt by David Wilkie
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  View of Sir David Wilkie's House in Kensington by William Collins
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  Sorrento, Bay of Naples by William Collins
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  Villa d'Este, Tivoli by William Collins
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  Portrait of Lady Haddo by Margaret Sarah Carpenter
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  The Play Scene in Hamlet by Daniel Maclise
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  The Origin of the Harp by Daniel Maclise
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  Queen Katherine and Patience by Charles Robert Leslie
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  Crossing the Ford by William Mulready
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  The Village Schoolmaster by Charles West Cope
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  Ophelia Weaving Her Garlands by Richard Redgrave
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  Bad News from Sea by Richard Redgrave
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  Cinderella About to Try on the Glass Slipper by Richard Redgrave
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  Measuring Heights by William Powell Frith
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  The Tired Soldier Resting at a Roadside Well by Frederick Goodall
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  The Departure of Charles II from Bentley in Staffordshire by Charles Landseer
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  The Sanctuary by Edwin Landseer
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  A Highland Shepherd's Home by Edwin Landseer
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  A Favourite Greyhound of Prince Albert by Edwin Landseer
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  Henry VI, Part Two, Act II, Scene 1 at St Albans by Edward Matthew Ward
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  A Fishmonger's Shop by Jacques-Laurent Agasse
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  The Watering Place by Frederick Richard Lee
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  The Black Prince Thanking Lord James Audley for his Gallantry in the Battle of Poitiers by Benjamin Robert Haydon
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  The Death of Sir William Lambton at the Battle of Marston Moor by Richard Ansdell
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  The Marriage of the Covenanter by Alexander Johnston
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  Floretta by Robert Farrier
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  The Magdalen by William Etty
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  The Ravine Leading to Petra by David Roberts
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  The Hawthorn Bush by Charles West Cope
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  The Sisters by Charles Lock Eastlake
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  Portrait of Queen Victoria by John Partridge
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  Portrait of Prince Albert by John Partridge
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  Portrait of Francis Baring by John Linnell
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  Portrait of William Coningham by John Linnell
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  Portrait of Robert Stopford by Frederick Richard Say
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  Portrait of Edward Pyndar Lygon by William Salter
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  Portrait of the Bishop of Chichester by Thomas Phillips
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  Portrait of Michael Faraday by Thomas Phillips
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  Portrait of William Gordon by Henry William Pickersgill

See also

• Salon of 1842, held at the Louvre in Paris