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Royal Academy Exhibition of 1819

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1819 was the fifty first Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the academy's Somerset House headquarters in London from 3 May to 3 July 1819. It featured works by leading artists and architects of the Regency era. It marked the fiftieth anniversary of the inaugural Exhibition of 1769, although there was little public acknowledgement of this other than the striking of a commemorative medal.

J.M.W. Turner exhibited two notable works. His ' is a picturesque view of the River Thames from Richmond Hill featuring a celebration of the Prince Regent's birthday. By contrast, Entrance of the Meuse is a stormy seascape in which depicts a Dutch merchant ship stranded on a sandbank during rough weather. John Constable displayed the first of his "six-footers" The White Horse, a landscape painting featuring a view on the River Stour in his native Suffolk.

Britain's leading portrait painter Thomas Lawrence was absent on the Continent fulfilling a commission from the Prince Regent to produce picture of the leading European figures involved in the defeat of Napoleon and therefore displayed no paintings at the academy that year. A number of his rivals did have work on display including Thomas Phillips who exhibited a portrait of the Whig politician John Lambton and William Owen with a picture of Charles Abbott, the Lord Chief Justice.

Martin Archer Shee displayed his Portrait of William Roscoe featuring the Liverpool lawyer, art collector and abolitionist William Roscoe. William Beechey presented royal paintings including the Portrait of Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge, which consciously imitated the style of the fashionable Thomas Lawrence.

The American-born President of the Royal Academy exhibited one of his final works The Stolen Kiss. David Wilkie displayed the genre painting The Penny Wedding while Edward Villiers Rippingille of the Bristol School submitted The Post Office.

Gallery

<Gallery Mode="packed" Heights="200"> File:Joseph Mallord William Turner - England- Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday - Google Art Project.jpg|' by J.M.W. Turner File:Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) - Entrance of the Meuse, Orange-Merchant on the Bar, Going to Pieces, Brill Church bearing S. E. by S., Masensluys E. by S. - N00501 - National Gallery.jpg|Entrance of the Meuse by J.M.W. Turner File:Martin Archer Shee - William Roscoe - Google Art Project.jpg|Portrait of William Roscoe by Martin Archer Shee File:James Munro Macnabb.png|James Munro Macnabb by Martin Archer Shee File:John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham by Thomas Phillips.jpg|Portrait of the Earl of Durham by Thomas Phillips File:Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge - Beechey 1818.jpg|Portrait of Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge by William Beechey File:After Sir William Beechey (1753-1839) - Princess Augusta (1768-1840) - RCIN 402465 - Royal Collection.jpg|Princess Augusta Sophia by William Beechey File:Lord Tenterden LCJ by William Owen.jpg|Charles Abbott by William Owen File:William Owen (1769-1825) - Sir Thomas Dyke Acland (1787–1871), 10th Bt, MP - 922289 - National Trust.jpg|Thomas Dyke Acland by William Owen File:Benjamin West - The Stolen Kiss - 30.494 - Museum of Fine Arts.jpg|The Stolen Kiss by Benjamin West File:James Northcote - Daniel in the Lions' Den - BF.1985.10 - Museum of Fine Arts.jpg|Daniel in the Lion's Den by James Northcote File:William Hilton (1786-1839) - The Rape of Ganymede - 03-209 - Royal Academy of Arts.jpg|The Rape of Ganymede by William Hilton File:Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841) - The Penny Wedding - RCIN 405536 - Royal Collection.jpg|The Penny Wedding by David Wilkie File:Edward Villiers Rippingille (1829) - The Post Office - Leeds Museums and Galleries.jpg|The Post Office by Edward Villiers Rippingille File:Abraham Cooper (1787-1868) - Marston Moor - PRSMG , P909 - Harris Museum.jpg|Marston Moor by Abraham Cooper File:Jupiter Pluvius, ancient Greek city of Lebadeia, 1819, Joseph Gandy.jpg|Jupiter Pluvius by Joseph Gandy File:Lending a Bite.png|Lending a Bite by William Mulready File:Etty – Mary Arabella Jay.jpg|Mary Arabella Jay by William Etty File:Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) - Sir Francis Chantrey (1781–1841), RA - 1977.1097 - McLean Museum and Art Gallery.jpg|Francis Chantrey by Henry Raeburn File:John Jackson (1778-1831) - George Dance (1741–1825) - L.F35.1948.0.0 - Leicester Museum ^ Art Gallery.jpg|George Dance by John Jackson File:Alfred Edward Chalon (1780-1860) - Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817), Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld - RCIN 405449 - Royal Collection.jpg|Prince Charlotte by Alfred Edward Chalon </gallery>

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References

Bibliography

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  • Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life. Sceptre, 1998.
  • Herrmann, Luke. J. M. W. Turner. Oxford University Press, 2007.
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  • Tromans, Nicholas. David Wilkie: The People's Painter. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.