Royal Academy Exhibition of 1872

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1872 was the 104th annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts held at Burlington House in London from 6 May to 5 August 1872. It was the largest held so far with 1,600 works from artists and architects of the Victorian era and attracted over 260,000 visitors.^[1] Francis Grant presided over the event as President of the Royal Academy.

The millionaire art collector Alfred Morrison acquired a number of works from the exhibition, including Frederic Leighton's Summer Moon and Henry William Banks Davis's A Panic. John Gilbert was criticised in The Times for the perceived poor quality of his history painting. King Charles I Leaving Westminster Hall. However, Luke Fildes enjoyed success with his debut submission Fair Quiet and Sweet Rest.^[2] William Powell Frith, one of the mainstays of the academy, sent in a number of paintings including At My Window, Boulogne and Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn Deer Shooting in Windsor Forest.^[3] Another veteran Edwin Landseer exhibited Lady Emily Peel with her Favourite Dogs, a work first commissioned in the 1840s.^[4]

John Everett Millais displayed the landscape painting Flowing to the Sea and its companion piece Flowing to the River.

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  Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler
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  At My Window, Boulogne by William Powell Frith
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  Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn Deer Shooting in Windsor Forest by William Powell Frith
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  Lord Foppington Relating His Adventures by William Powell Frith
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  The Miniature by William Powell Frith
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  A Panic by Henry William Banks Davis
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  An Interesting Story by James Tissot
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  The Farewells by James Tissot
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  After Vespers by Frederic Leighton
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  A Condottiere by Frederic Leighton
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  The Baptismal Font by Edwin Landseer
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  Danish Craft on the Elbe by Edward William Cooke
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  Ploughing with Oxen by Léon Lhermitte
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  Pay for Peeping by John Callcott Horsley
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  George Herbert and His Mother by Charles West Cope
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  Oliver Cromwell and His Secretary John Milton, Receiving a Deputation Seeking Aid for the Swiss Protestants by Charles West Cope
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  Hearts are Trumps by John Everett Millais
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  Flowing to the Sea by John Everett Millais
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  Flowing to the River by John Everett Millais
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  Near Capel Curig by Benjamin Williams Leader
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  Wild Wales by Benjamin Williams Leader
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  Noon on the Surrey Hills by George Vicat Cole
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  The Harbour of Refuge by Frederick Walker
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  Nymph and Cupid by William Edward Frost
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  The Harvest Moon by George Mason
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  The Tower from London Bridge by Henry Dawson
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  God's Acre by Thomas Faed
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  Casus Belli by William Quiller Orchardson
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  Playing at Work by Charles Edward Perugini
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  The Confessional by Henri Lehmann
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  The Queens Lodge, Windsor in 1786 by Henrietta Ward
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  Edward II and Piers Gavestone by Marcus Stone
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  Dawn of the First Easter Sunday by Edward Armitage
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  The Return from Flight by Edward Matthew Ward
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  And the Prayer of Faith Shall Save the Sick by John Frederick Lewis
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  Lilium Auratum by John Frederick Lewis
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  The Suppliants by Edwin Long
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  Silvius and Phoebe by John Pettie
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  Remorse by Paul Falconer Poole
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  Perseus and Andromeda by Edward Poynter
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  Daniel in the Lions' Den by Briton Rivière
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  Poll the Milkmaid by Arthur Hughes
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  As You Like It by Arthur Hughes
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  Whitesand Bay by John Brett
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  South Bishop Rock, Anticipations of a Wild Night by John Brett
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  The Arrest of Anne Boleyn by David Wilkie Wynfield
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  Cephalus and Procris by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
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  Winter Gale in the Channel by Henry Moore
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  The Denunciation of Cain by George Frederic Watts
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  Petra by Edward Lear
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  Old York Gate, Adelphi by John O'Connor
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  The Harem by Francis John Wyburd
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  The Fall of Rienzi by Frank William Warwick Topham
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  The Village Well by Hugh Cameron
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  Terms to the Besieged by John Pettie
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  Left to Die by Frances Anne Hopkins
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  Mark Rolle by Henry Richard Graves
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  Lord Hatherley by George Richmond
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  Queen Victoria with Three Grandchildren by James Sant
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  Robert Carruthers by Daniel Macnee
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  Lady Theresa Talbot and Viscount Ingrestre by Valentine Cameron Prinsep
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  Sir Henry Irving as Matthias in The Bells by James Archer
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  Lord Cardwell by George Richmond
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  Richard Quain by George Richmond
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  William Robert Grove by James Edgell Collins
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  Gilbert Ainslie by Frederick Bacon Barwell
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  Brian Houghton Hodgson by Louisa Starr
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  Arthur Mitchell by Norman Macbeth
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  Rith H. Wallis-Dunlop by George Frederic Watts
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  Philip Hermogenes Calderon by George Frederic Watts
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  Virginia Dalrymple by George Frederic Watts
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  Sir George Trevelyan by James Archer
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  James Paget by John Everett Millais
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  Duke of Rutland by Francis Grant

• Ormond, Richard. The Monarch of the Glen: Landseer in the Highlands. National Galleries of Scotland, 2005.
• Trotter, David. William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age. Yale University Press, 2006.