The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1817 was the forty ninth annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at Somerset House between 5 May and 28 June 1817, during the Regency era.
John Constable exhibited four paintings including the landscape painting Wivenhoe Park featuring a picturesque scene in Essex, and a portrait of his friend John Fisher. Thomas Lawrence, the leading portraitist of the period, displayed his Portrait of Lord Uxbridge featuring one of the most famous figures of the Battle of Waterloo. George Dawe submitted portraits of both Princess Charlotte of Wales and her new husband Prince Leopold.
The Scottish artist David Wilkie displayed a genre painting The Breakfast. One of the most commented on works in the exhibition was The Court for the Trial of Queen Katharine by George Henry Harlow featuring Sarah Siddons and other members of the theatrical Kemble family performing in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII. The Italian sculptor Antonio Canova displayed his statue Hebe.
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