Royal Academy Exhibition of 1866

Volunteers at a Firing Point by Henry Tanworth Wells

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1866 was the ninety eighth annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery in London from 7 May to 28 July 1866. One of the most notable works on display was the Irish artist Daniel Maclise's The Death of Nelson, an oil painting based on the fresco he had produced for the Houses of Parliament. It was the first exhibition during the Presidency of Francis Grant, in succession to Charles Lock Eastlake. The same year the Academy began its protracted move to a new permanent home at Burlington House in Piccadilly.

Paintings on display included Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman by William Powell Frith and The Woodman's Dinner by Richard Redgrave. Edwin Landseer displayed The Arab Tent and Lady Godiva's Prayer while Henry Tanworth Wells exhibited Volunteers at a Firing Point, his diploma work for membership of the Royal Academy.

Gallery

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  The Death of Nelson by Daniel Maclise
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  The Painter's Honeymoon by Frederic Leighton
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  Portrait of Elinor Guthrie by Frederic Leighton
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  Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman by William Powell Frith
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  Lady Godiva's Prayer by Edwin Landseer
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  Leicester and Amy Robsart at Cumnor Hall by Edward Matthew Ward
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  A Pleasant Corner by John Callcott Horsley
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  The Arab Tent by Edwin Landseer
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  Pot Luck by Thomas Faed
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  Ere Care Begins by Thomas Faed
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  The Thorn by Charles West Cope
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  The Last Moments of Raphael by Henry Nelson O'Neil
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  Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort at Aldershot by George Housman Thomas
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  Thetis by George Frederic Watts
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  The Remorse of Judas by Edward Armitage
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  Solitude by Frederick Richard Lee
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  A Breezy Day on the English Coast by Thomas Creswick
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  The Close of Summer by Benjamin Williams Leader
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  A Chat Round the Brasero by John Phillip
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  The Door of a Café in Cairo by John Frederick Lewis
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  Going to the Spring by Paul Falconer Poole
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  Going to a Party by John Callcott Horsley
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  Gran's Treasures by George Bernard O'Neill
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  An Arrest for Witchcraft in the Olden Time by John Pettie
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  Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread by James Clarke Hook
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  Not Sold Yet by John Templeton Lucas
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  The Syracusan Bride leading Wild Animals in Procession to the Temple of Diana by Frederic Leighton
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  Mors Janua Vitae by Joseph Noel Paton
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  I Wonder Who Lived in There! by Joseph Noel Paton
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  Margaret in the Cathedral by Thomas Jones Barker
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  Palissy the Potter by Henrietta Ward
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  Reynolds' First Sketch by Eyre Crowe
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  Awaiting Publication of 'Le Moniteur' for News of the Arrest of Robespierre by William Henry Fisk
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  The Wappenshaw by John Faed
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  La Festa di Lido by Valentine Cameron Prinsep
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  The Guarded Bower by Arthur Hughes
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  A Spate in the Highland by Peter Graham
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  Orchids by Martha Darley Mutrie
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  The Dismayed Artist by Frederick Daniel Hardy
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  Apricots by Albert Joseph Moore
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  Pomegranates by Albert Joseph Moore
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  The Shulamite by Albert Joseph Moore
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  The Story of a Life by William Quiller Orchardson
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  Her Most High, Noble and Puissant Grace by Philip Hermogenes Calderon
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  On the Ribble, Near Preston, Harvest Time by Henry Dawson
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  Daniel Maclise Painting The Death of Nelson in the House of Lords by John Ballantyne
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  The Water Carriers by Richard Ansdell
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  Spanish Posada, Granada by Richard Ansdell
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  Anne Boleyn and Percy by David Wilkie Wynfield
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  Stealing the Keys by Marcus Stone
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  Damon and Aglae by Simeon Solomon
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  Portrait of Robert Bullock Marsham by Henry Tanworth Wells
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  Portrait of William Marsden by Henry William Pickersgill
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  Portrait of Derwent Coleridge by Samuel Laurence
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  Portrait of George T. Clark by Henry Wyndham Phillips
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  Portrait of Alice Woolner by Arthur Hughes
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  Portrait of Edmund Walker Head by Henry Weigall
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  Portrait of Duke of Cambridge by John Prescott Knight
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  The Four Eldest Children of the Crown Prince of Prussia by George Koberwein
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  Portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman by George Peter Alexander Healy
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  Portrait of Anna Brassey by Francis Grant
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  Portrait of George Richards by Stephen Pearce

See also

• Salon of 1866, an art exhibition held in Paris the same year

Bibliography

• Murray, Peter. Daniel Maclise, 1806–1870: Romancing the Past. Crawford Art Gallery, 2009..