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.
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.
Irish artist Daniel Maclise displayed the large painting The Sleeping Beauty. William Etty enjoyed success with the biblical scene The Repentant Prodigal's Return to his Father. 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.
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