The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1895 was the hundred and twenty seventh annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at Burlington House in London's Piccadilly between 6 May and 5 August 1895 and drew over three hundred thousand visitors. It featured works by leading artists and architects of the late Victorian era. It was the final exhibition of the President of the Royal Academy Frederic Leighton who died in January of the following year. Leighton still managed to submit six paintings that for the exhibition. Amongst the works Leighton displayed is one of his most famous Flaming June.
As Leighton was too ill to attend the customary dinner held before the opening of the exhibition, John Everett Millais deputised for him at the event which was attended by the Prince of Wales, the Prime Minister Lord Rosebery as well as the writers Arthur Conan Doyle and Arthur Wing Pinero. Millais, who would go on to succeed Leighton as president, himself exhibited the works Saint Stephen and Speak! Speak!. Elizabeth Thompson displayed Dawn of Waterloo and Richard Caton Woodville presented the Charge of the Light Brigade.
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