Royal Academy Exhibition of 1835

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1835 was an art exhibition held at Somerset House in London between 4 May and 18 July 1835.^[1] It was sixty seventh annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. The exhibition took place during the reign of William on the cusp of the Victorian era. The President of the Royal Academy, the Irish artist Martin Archer Shee, exhibited a a portrait of the king.

The celebrated landscape painter John Constable featured a single entry The Valley Farm, a view of a scene near Flatford in Constable Country although it received poor comparisons to earlier pictures he had produced of the same scene.^[2] His rival J.M.W. Turner displayed a range of paintings amongst which was Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, a view of the River Tyne at Newcastle.^[3] Turner also submitted his The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons depicting the fire that had engulfed Westminster in October 1834. In addition he portrayed a view of Venice as well as the seascape Line Fishing, Off Hastings.

Other works on display included Edwin Landseer's The Drover's Departure, portraying a scene in the Scottish Highlands. William Etty submitted a number of paintings, several of which included the nude scenes for which he was best known, including Venus and her Satellites and Phaedria and Cymochles on the Idle Lake. Archer Shee submitted a number of portraits aside from the king, but critical reaction was poor with negative comparisons to his predecessor Thomas Lawrence which had dogged him since he assumed the presidency.^[4] Other portraitists displaying work included Thomas Phillips, Henry Perronet Briggs and Henry William Pickersgill.

The young Irishman Daniel Maclise drew attention with his The Chivalric Vow of the Ladies of the Peacock.^[5] The Scottish artist David Wilkie earned praise for his history painting Christopher Columbus Explaining His Intended Voyage. ^[6] As well as genre paintings Wilkie also displayed a portrait of the Duke of Wellington.^[7]

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  The Valley Farm by John Constable
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  Line Fishing, Off Hastings by J.M.W. Turner
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  Venice From the Porch of Madonna della Salute by J.M.W. Turner
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  The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons by J.M.W. Turner
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  The Bright Stone of Honour by J.M.W. Turner
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  Venus and Her Satellites by William Etty
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  Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball by William Etty
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  The Bridge of Sighs by William Etty
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  Phaedria and Cymochles on the Idle Lake by William Etty
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  Hay Barge off Greenwich by Edward William Cooke
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  Lake Garda by Augustus Wall Callcott
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  Sancho Panza in the Days of his Youth by David Wilkie
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  Christopher Columbus Explaining His Intended Voyage by David Wilkie
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  The First Ear-Ring by David Wilkie
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  The Chivalric Vow of the Ladies and the Peacock by Daniel Maclise
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  Barmouth Sands by William Collins
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  The Mariner's Widow by William Collins
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  Vigilance by Henry Wyatt
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  The Last In by William Mulready
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  Favourites by Edwin Landseer
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  The Drover's Departure by Edwin Landseer
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  Richard I and Saladin by Solomon Hart
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  Christ's Appearance to the two Disciples Journeying to Emmaus by John Linnell
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  Scene from the Honeymoon by George Clint
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  Gulliver Presented to the Queen of Brobdignag by Charles Robert Leslie
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  Pilgrims Arriving in Sight of Rome by Charles Lock Eastlake
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  The American Frigate Constitution by Charles Henry Seaforth
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  Portrait of Charles Kemble by Henry Perronet Briggs
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  Portrait of James Planché by Henry Perronet Briggs
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  Portrait of Charles Napier by John Simpson
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  Portrait of Earl Brownlow by Martin Archer Shee
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  Portrait of Lord Meadowbank by Martin Archer Shee
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  Portrait of Thomas Morton by Martin Archer Shee
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  Portrait of Ashurst Gilbert by Thomas Phillips
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  Portrait of Charles Bagot by Henry William Pickersgill
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  Portrait of the Duke of Newcastle, 1835

• Salon of 1835, a contemporary French exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris

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