The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1835 was an art exhibition held at Somerset House in London between 4 May and 18 July 1835. 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. 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. 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. 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. The Scottish artist David Wilkie earned praise for his history painting Christopher Columbus Explaining His Intended Voyage. As well as genre paintings Wilkie also displayed a portrait of the Duke of Wellington.
<Gallery Mode="packed" Heights="200"> File:John Constable (1776-1837) - The Valley Farm - N00327 - National Gallery.jpg|The Valley Farm by John Constable File:Turner, Joseph Mallord William (RA) - Line Fishing, Off Hastings - Google Art Project.jpg|Line Fishing, Off Hastings by J.M.W. Turner File:Turner, J. M. W. - The Grand Canal - Venice.jpg|Venice From the Porch of Madonna della Salute by J.M.W. Turner File:Joseph Mallord William Turner - The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834 - 1942.647 - Cleveland Museum of Art.jpg|The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons by J.M.W. Turner File:Turner - The Bright Stone of Honour (Ehrenbreitstein) and the Tomb of Marceau, from Byrons Childe Harold, l17033.jpg|The Bright Stone of Honour by J.M.W. Turner File:William Etty - Venus and Her Satellites.jpg|Venus and Her Satellites by William Etty File:Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball by William Etty YORAG 2009 6.jpg|Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball by William Etty File:The Bridge of Sighs YORAG-65.jpg|The Bridge of Sighs by William Etty File:Phaedria and Cymochles on the Idle Lake.png|Phaedria and Cymochles on the Idle Lake by William Etty File:Hay Barge off Greenwich RMG BHC4165.tiff|Hay Barge off Greenwich by Edward William Cooke File:Augustus Wall Callcott (1779-1844) - On an Italian Lake (Garda^) - 830814 - National Trust.jpg|Lake Garda by Augustus Wall Callcott File:Sancho Panza in the Days of his Youth.png|Sancho Panza in the Days of his Youth by David Wilkie File:Christopher Columbus Explaining His Intended Voyage.png|Christopher Columbus Explaining His Intended Voyage by David Wilkie File:David Wilkie (1785-1841) - The First Ear-Ring - N00328 - National Gallery.jpg|The First Ear-Ring by David Wilkie File:The Chivalric Vow of the Ladies and the Peacock.jpg|The Chivalric Vow of the Ladies of the Peacock by Daniel Maclise File:Barmouth Sands by William Collins, 1835, Guildhall Gallery, London.JPG|Barmouth Sands by William Collins File:William Collins (1788-1847) - The Mariner's Widow - PRSMG , P79 - Harris Museum.jpg|The Mariner's Widow by William Collins File:Henry Wyatt (1794-1840) - Vigilance - N00383 - National Gallery.jpg|Vigilance by Henry Wyatt File:William Mulready (1786-1863) - The Last In - N00393 - National Gallery.jpg|The Last In by William Mulready File:Sir Edwin Henry Landseer - Favourites, the Property of H.R.H. Prince George of Cambridge - Google Art Project.jpg|Favourites by Edwin Landseer File:Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873) - The Drover's Departure, A Scene in the Grampians - FA.88(O) - Victoria and Albert Museum.jpg|The Drover's Departure by Edwin Landseer File:Solomon Alexander Hart (1806-1881) - King Richard I of England and Soldan Saladin - WAG 3076 - Walker Art Gallery.jpg|Richard I and Saladin by Solomon Hart File:John Linnell (1792-1882) - Christ's Appearance to the two Disciples journeying to Emmaus - WA1963.122 - Ashmolean Museum.jpg|Christ's Appearance to the two Disciples Journeying to Emmaus by John Linnell File:The honey moon.PNG|Scene from the Honeymoon by George Clint File:Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859) - Gulliver Presented to the Queen of Brobdignag (from Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels', 1726âÂÂ1735) - 485039 - National Trust.jpg|Gulliver Presented to the Queen of Brobdignag by Charles Robert Leslie File:Pilgrims arriving in sight of Rome (1827), by Charles Lock Eastlake.jpg|Pilgrims Arriving in Sight of Rome by Charles Lock Eastlake File:Charles Henry Seaforth - The American frigate Constitution bearing up and making sail on discovery of an English three-decker through the fog 85411903.jpg|The American Frigate Constitution by Charles Henry Seaforth File:Briggs, Henry Perronet - Charles Kemble - Google Art Project.jpg|Portrait of Charles Kemble by Henry Perronet Briggs File:James Planché 1835.jpg|Portrait of James Planché by Henry Perronet Briggs File:Almirante Charles Napier - John Simpson (attributed), after 1834, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis.png|Portrait of Charles Napier by John Simpson File:Martin Archer Shee (1769-1850) - John Cust (1779âÂÂ1853), 1st Earl Brownlow, GCH, FRS, MP - 436210 - National Trust.jpg|Portrait of Earl Brownlow by Martin Archer Shee File:Martin Archer Shee (1769-1850) - Alexander Maconochie-Wellwood (1777âÂÂ1861), 2nd Lord Meadowbank, Judge - PG 1424 - National Galleries of Scotland.jpg|Portrait of Lord Meadowbank by Martin Archer Shee File:Martin Archer Shee (1769-1850) - Thomas Morton Esq. - N00368 - National Gallery.jpg|Portrait of Thomas Morton by Martin Archer Shee File:Thomas Phillips (1770-1845) - Ashurst Turner Gilbert (1786âÂÂ1870), DD, Principal (1822), Bishop of Chichester (1842) - O.6 - Brasenose College.jpg|Portrait of Ashurst Gilbert by Thomas Phillips File:Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875) - Sir Charles Bagot (1781âÂÂ1843) - LP 254 - Christ Church.jpg|Portrait of Charles Bagot by Henry William Pickersgill File:Portrait of the Duke of Newcastle (Pickersgill).png|Portrait of the Duke of Newcastle by Henry William Pickersgill, 1835 </gallery>