Royal Academy Exhibition of 1841

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1841 was the seventy third annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery in London from 3 May to 24 July 1841 and featured submissions from leading painters, sculptors and architects of the early Victorian era. A critic lamented the absence of the late John Constable and other figures such as Augustus Wall Callcott.^[1]

By the final decade of his career, Turner was Britain's leading artists and his annual submissions were often the most-discussed paintings of the exhibition. In 1841 he displayed six oil paintings several inspired by a recent trip to Venice. Amongst them was the German landscape Schloss Rosenau, an attempt to win royal patronage as it was the family residence of Queen Victoria's new consort Prince Albert.^[2]

Irish artist Daniel Maclise displayed the large painting The Sleeping Beauty.^[3] William Etty enjoyed success with the biblical scene he Repentant Prodigal's Return to his Father.^[4] The President of the Royal Academy Sir Martin Archer Shee was amongst several portraitists to submit work. In sculpture Francis Chantrey displayed statues of two prominent bishops.^[5]

• The Castle of Ischia from the Mole, Italy by Clarkson Stanfield
• Schloss Rosenau by J.M.W. Turner
• Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio and J.M.W. Turner
• Depositing of John Bellini's Three Pictures in La Chiesa Redentore, Venice by J.M.W. Turner
• View of Venice The Ducal Palace, Dogana and Part of San Giorgio by J.M.W. Turner
• The Dawn of Christianity (The Flight into Egypt) by J.M.W. Turner
• Glaucus and Scylla by J.M.W. Turner
• The Sleeping Beauty by Daniel Maclise
• Hunt the Slipper by Daniel Maclise
• The Boy with Many Friends by Thomas Webster
• The Repentant Prodigal's Return to his Father by William Etty
• The Temptation of Andrew Marvell by Charles Landseer
• The Hermit by Charles Landseer
• The Recovery of the Stolen Child by William Allan
• Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives by David Roberts
• The Slave Market, Cairo by William James Müller
• Titania Sleeping by Richard Dadd
• Train Up a Child by William Mulready
• Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene by John Prescott Knight
• A Detachment of Cromwell's Cavalry Surprised in a Mountain Pass by Thomas Woodward
• Answering the Advertisement by Francis Philip Stephanoff
• Female Bathers Surprised by a Swan by William Etty
• The Caves of Ulysses at Sorrento, Naples by William Collins
• The Celestial City and the River of Bliss by John Martin
• Pandemonium by John Martin
• Lord Anson's Arrival At Spithead With His Prizes by John Christian Schetky
• Liensfiord Lake, Norway by Francis Danby
• The Enchanted Castle by Francis Danby
• The Trial of Effie Deans by Robert Scott Lauder
• Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Charles Robert Leslie
• The Waefu' Heart by Thomas Duncan
• The Library at Holland House by Charles Robert Leslie
• Queen Victoria, King Leopold and Their Suites Riding Out in Windsor Great Park by Richard Barrett Davis
• Portrait of Charles Cust by Martin Archer Shee
• Portrait of James Bowstead by Martin Archer Shee
• Portrait of Richard Jenkyns by Henry Perronet Briggs
• Portrait of George Cayley by Henry Perronet Briggs
• Portrait of James Hope by Thomas Phillips
• Portrait of William Lawrence by Henry William Pickersgill
• Portrait of the Duke of Sussex by Solomon Hart
• Portrait of Mary Brunton by George Frederic Watts
• Portrait of Countess Jermyn by Francis Grant
• A Shooting Party at Ranton Abbey by Francis Grant

• Salon of 1841, a contemporary French exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris

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• Murray, Peter. Daniel Maclise, 1806-1870: Romancing the Past. Crawford Art Gallery, 2009.
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• Weston, Nancy. Daniel Maclise: Irish Artist in Victorian London. Four Courts Press, 2009.