The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1858 was the ninetieth 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 1858 during the Victorian era.
George Frederic Watts submitted three portrait paintings under the pseudonym F.W. George, his first appearance at the Academy in several years after boycotting it. Several of the key participants of the Pre-Raphaelite movement were absent, but the critic John Ruskin suggested that their style had influenced many of the paintings on display. Francis Grant displayed The Countess of Errol at The Camp of the Rifle Brigade, Bulgaria.
Edward Matthew Ward displayed Queen Victoria at the Tomb of Napoleon, a royal commission, depicting the state visit Queen Victoria had made to France in 1855. By far the greatest attraction at the exhibition was William Powell Frith's The Derby Day, a panoramic genre painting featuring the Epson Derby. Its enormous popularity with crowds meant a rail to be erected to protect it. Frith's friend Augustus Egg displayed his Past and Present series, a trilogy of paintings showing the disastrous effect of a family of the wife's adultery.
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Egg (1837, Tate).jpg|Beatrix Knighting Esmond by Augustus Leopold Egg File:Past and Present Number One.jpg|Past and Present Number One by Augustus Leopold Egg File:Past and Present Number Two.jpg|Past and Present Number Two by Augustus Leopold Egg File:Past and Present Number Three.jpg|Past and Present Number Three by Augustus Leopold Egg File:Henry Nelson O'Neil - Eastward Ho (1857).jpg|Eastward Ho! by Henry Nelson O'Neil File:John Phillip (1817-67) - The Dying Contrabandista - RCIN 404562 - Royal Collection.jpg|The Dying Contrabandista by John Phillip File:Youth in Seville (John Phillip).jpg|Youth in Seville by John Phillip File:Frederick Richard Pickersgill (1820-1900) - The Bribe - 03-379 - Royal Academy of Arts.jpg|The Bribe by Frederick Richard Pickersgill File:Solomon Alexander Hart (1806-1881) - Athaliah's Dismay at the Coronation of Joash - TWCMS , B8141 - Laing Art Gallery.jpg|Athaliah's Dismay at the Coronation of Joash by Solomon Hart File:John Frederick Lewis The Kibab Shop 1858.jpg|The Kibab Shop by John Frederick Lewis File:Thomas Webster - Sunday Evening.JPG|Sunday Evening by Thomas Webster File:Alfred Elmore (1815-1881) - Subject from 'Two Gentlemen of Verona' - 03-1014 - Royal Academy of Arts.jpg|Two Gentlemen of Verona by Alfred Elmore File:Paul Falconer Poole (1807-1879) - The Death of Cordelia (from William Shakespeare's 'King Lear') - 322-1887 - Victoria and Albert Museum.jpg|The Death of Cordelia by Paul Falconer Poole File:Thomas Faed (1825-1900) - The Listener Ne'er Hears Gude o' Himsel - 0060-1901 - Bury Art Museum.jpg|The Listener Ne'er Hears Gude o' Himsel by Thomas Faed File:Alexander Johnston (1815-1891) - The Press Gang - KINCM-2005.5085 - Ferens Art Gallery.jpg|The Press Gang by Alexander Johnston File:Retribution by Edward Armitage.jpg|Retribution by Edward Armitage File:James Clarke Hook - A pastoral - "Then blow your pypes...".jpg|A Pastoral by James Clarke Hook File:Sir Walter Raleigh in the Tower by Henry Wallis.jpg|Sir Walter Raleigh in the Tower by Henry Wallis File:The Fortress of Savona.png|The Fortress of Savona by Clarkson Stanfield File:Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) - Ischia and the Castello d'Ischia, near Naples - 507-1882 - Victoria and Albert Museum.jpg|The Castle of Ischia by Clarkson Stanfield File:Edward William Cooke (1811-1880) - Venetian Fishing Craft off the Adriatic Shore of the Lido - VIS.1407 - Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust.jpg|Venetian Fishing Craft off the Adriatic Shore of the Lido by Edward William Cooke File:Bridge of Sighs (Cooke).jpg|Bridge of Sighs, Venice by Edward William Cooke File:Henry Courtney Selous (1803-1890) - What Does the Sea Say^ - BURGM-paoil146 - Towneley Hall Art Gallery And Museum.jpg|What Does the Sea Say? by Henry Courtney Selous File:Flora MacDonald's Farewell to Charles Edward.jpeg|Flora MacDonald's Farewell to Charles Edward by Philip Hermogenes Calderon File:The Flight from Lucknow by Abraham Solomon.jpg|The Flight from Lucknow by Abraham Solomon File:Hughes-Nativity.jpg|The Nativity by Arthur Hughes File:Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875) - Ruth and Boaz - WAGMG , 1942.5 - Warrington Museum and Art Gallery.jpg|Ruth and Boaz by Henry William Pickersgill File:Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875) - John Barlow (1798âÂÂ1869) - RIIC 1548 - Royal Institution.jpg|Portrait of John Barlow by Henry William Pickersgill File:H.R.H. Albert, Prince Consort - John Phillip - ABDCC001042.jpg|Portrait of Prince Albert by John Phillip File:Thomas William Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester.jpg|Portrait of the Earl of Leicester by George Richmond File:William Boxall (1800-1879) - Thomas Lombe Taylor - DTC2 - Corn Hall.jpg|Portrait of Thomas Lombe Taylor by William Boxall File:John Watson Gordon (1788-1864) - James Andrew Ramsay (1812âÂÂ1860), 10th Earl and 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India - PG 1119 - National Galleries of Scotland.jpg|Portrait of Marquess of Dalhousie by John Watson Gordon File:Francis Grant (1803-1878) - General, the Right Honourable Sir Percy Egerton Herbert (1822âÂÂ1876), PC, KCB, MP - 1180924 - National Trust.jpg|Portrait of Percy Egerton Herbert by Francis Grant </gallery>