The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1850 was the eighty second annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery in London's Trafalgar Square from 6 May to 27 July 1850 during the Victorian era.
It was the final time J.M.W. Turner submitted works to the Academy before his death the following year. Turner has been exhibiting works at since his debut as a fifteen year old at the 1790 edition. His four submissions in his final year were inspired by the Aeneid by Virgil and the doomed romance of the Carthaginian queen Dido and the Trojan Aeneas. Turner was by the stage producing proto-impressionist works.
One of the most popular works on display was Edwin Landseer's A Dialogue at Waterloo it depicts an imaginary visit to the Duke of Wellington to the battlefield of Waterloo many years after his victory there. The emerging Pre-Raphaelite movement was represented by Christ in the House of His Parents by John Everett Millais, which attracted a great deal of criticism. William Edward Frost, a former pupil of William Etty, continued the tradition of nude art with The Disarming of Cupid and Andromeda.
Clarkson Stanfield displayed Macbeth and the Witches. The French artist Paul Delaroche displayed his 1831 history painting Cromwell Opening the Coffin of Charles I It was the final exhibition held during the presidency of the Irish portrait painter Martin Archer Shee. He was succeeded as President of the Royal Academy by Charles Lock Eastlake.
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Turner File:Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873) - A Dialogue at Waterloo - N00415 - National Gallery.jpg|A Dialogue at Waterloo by Edwin Landseer File:Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) - Macbeth and the Witches - L.F10.1890.0.0 - Leicester Museum ^ Art Gallery.jpg|Macbeth and the Witches by Clarkson Stanfield File:William Edward Frost (1810-77) - The Disarming of Cupid - RCIN 407163 - Royal Collection.jpg|The Disarming of Cupid by William Edward Frost File:William Powell Frith (1819-1909) - Mr Honeywood Introduces the Bailiffs to Miss Richland as His Friends (from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The G - FA.74(O) - Victoria and Albert Museum.jpg|Mr Honeywood Introduces the Bailiffs to Miss Richland as His Friends by William Powell Frith File:Frederick Richard Pickersgill (1820-1900) - Samson Betrayed - 1882.19 - Manchester Art Gallery.jpg|Samson Betrayed by Frederick Richard Pickersgill File:John Linnell (1792-1882) - Crossing the Brook - 81.1901 - Bury Art Museum.jpg|Crossing the Brook by John Linnell File:Millais ferdy.jpg|Ferdinand Lured by Ariel by John Everett Millais File:John Everett Millais - Christ in the House of His Parents (`The Carpenter's Shop') - Google Art Project.jpg|Christ in the House of His Parents by John Everett Millais File:William Holman Hunt - A Converted British Family.jpg|A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids by William Holman Hunt File:Barker, Thomas Jones, News of Battle--Edinburgh after Flodden.jpg|Edinburgh after Flodden by Thomas Jones Barker File:Baptism in Scotland.jpg|Baptism in Scotland by John Phillip File:Joseph Severn (1793-1879) - The Abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots - 1402-1869 - Victoria and Albert Museum.jpg|The Abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots by Joseph Severn File:James Clarke Hook (1819-1907) - A Dream of Venice - VIS.1453 - Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust.jpg|A Dream of Venice by James Clarke Hook File:Thomas Creswick (1811-1869) - The First Glimpse of the Sea - THC0012 - Royal Holloway, University of London.jpg|The First Glimpse of the Sea by Thomas Creswick File:Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865) - The Escape of Francesco Novello di Carrara, with his Wife, from the Duke of Milan - N00399 - National Gallery.jpg|The Escape of Francesco Novello di Carrara by Charles Lock Eastlake File:Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865) - The Good Samaritan - RCIN 408935 - Royal Collection.jpg|The Good Samaritan by Charles Lock Eastlake File:DelarocheCromwell.jpg|Cromwell Opening the Coffin of Charles I by Paul Delaroche File:The Last Man (Martin, 1849).png|The Last Man by John Martin File:David Roberts (1796-1864) - Lierre, Interior of Saint-Gommaire - P258 - The Wallace Collection.jpg|Interior of Saint-Gommaire, Lierre by David Roberts File:David Roberts (1796-1864) - Shrine of Saint Gomar at Lierre, Belgium - PRSMG , P489 - Harris Museum.jpg|Shrine of Saint Gomar at Lierre by David Roberts File:The Ruins of the Smaller Temple at Baalbec.jpeg|The Ruins of the Smaller Temple at Baalbec by David Roberts File:William Dyce - The meeting of Jacob and Rachel.jpg|The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel by William Dyce File:King James II Receiving the News of the Landing of William of Orange.jpg|King James II Receiving the News of the Landing of William of Orange by Edward Matthew Ward File:Edward Matthew Ward (1816-1879) - Izaak Walton Angling, A Summer's Day on the Banks of the Colne, Essex - 1385 - Guildhall Art Gallery.jpg| Izaac Walton Angling on a Summer's Day by Edward Matthew Ward File:The Awakening of King Lear.png|The Awakening of King Lear by the Kiss of Cordelia by Charles West Cope File:Daniel Maclise - The Spirit of Justice - M1881-1-1 - Auckland Art Gallery.jpg|The Spirit of Justice by Daniel Maclise File:Solomon Alexander Hart - The Feast of the Rejoicing of the Law at the Synagogue in Leghorn, Italy - Google Art Project.jpg|The Feast of the Rejoicing of the Law at the Synagogue in Leghorn, Italy by Solomon Hart File:Portrait de Henri d'Orléans àClaremont - Mottez - Musée Condé.jpg|Duke of Aumale by Victor Mottez File:George Patten (1801-1865) - Edmund Buckley - 1968.241 - Manchester Art Gallery.jpg|Edmund Buckley by George Patten File:John Prescott Knight (1803-1881) - Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803âÂÂ1902), RA - CANCM-8362 - Canterbury Museums and Galleries.jpg|Thomas Sidney Cooper by John Prescott Knight File:John Prescott Knight (1803-1881) - Sir James Duke (1792âÂÂ1873), Bt, MP City of London - M1978.21 - ANGUSalive.jpg|Sir James Duke by John Prescott Knight File:Abp Thomas Musgrave by FR Say.jpg|Thomas Musgrave by Frederick Richard Say File:Francis Grant (1803-1878) - Robert Barter (1790âÂÂ1861), Warden of Winchester College - Ao24 - Winchester College.jpg|Robert Barter by Francis Grant File:Henry Hardinge (Grant).jpg|Henry Hardinge by Francis Grant </gallery>