Royal Academy Exhibition of 1880

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1880 was an art exhibition held between 3 May and 2 August 1880 at Burlington House in London. It was the annual Summer Exhibition organised by the British Royal Academy of Arts. It drew around 300,000 spectators and featured submissions from prominent artists and architects of the later Victorian era.

Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon by William Quiller Orchardson

The rivalry between the Academy and the much newer Grosvenor Gallery continued to grow. While a number of artists associated with Impressionism had already exhibited there, this year major artists in the Academic style submitted works to both exhibitions.

The history painting Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon by William Quiller Orchardson and the seascape Britannia's Realm by John Brett received acclaim and were acquired for the nation through the Chantrey Bequest.

Amongst the portraits on display were two self-portraits by John Everett Millais and George Frederic Watts. These has been produced to hang at the Ufizzi Gallery in Florence, a process organised by the President of the Royal Academy Frederick Leighton. Julius Schrader displayed a portrait of the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. The French artist Jules Bastien-Lepage exhibited portraits of the Prince of Wales and the actress Sarah Bernhardt.

Gallery

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  Victoria Regina by Henry Tanworth Wells
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  Tenby Fisherwoman by William Powell Frith
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  A Tenby Prawn Seller by William Powell Frith
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  A Visit to Aesculapius by Edward Poynter
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  Home with the Tide by James Clarke Hook
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  Britannia's Realm by John Brett
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  The Vine by Philip Hermogenes Calderon
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  Not at Home by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
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  The Inquisition by Charles West Cope
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  Ordered to the Front by Frank Holl
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  Psamathe by Frederic Leighton
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  Crenaia by Frederic Leighton
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  Battle of Blenheim by Richard Caton Woodville
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  Race to the Market, Tahiti by Nicholas Chevalier
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  A Venetian Boy Unloading a Market Boat by Hilda Montalba
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  The Assyrian Captive by Edwin Long
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  Light of the Harem by Frederic Leighton
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  In Clover by Robert Walker Macbeth
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  A Nook in Nature's Garden by James Aumonier
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  Oxford by James Aumonier
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  The Halt by Mark Fisher
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  A Recess on a London Bridge by Augustus Edwin Mulready
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  Amour ou Patrie by Marcus Stone
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  Gleaners by Frederick Morgan
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  En Pénitence by Arthur Hughes
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  The Young Housewife by William Quiller Orchardson
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  Syria, The Night Watch by Briton Rivière
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  The Imperial Assemblage Held at Delhi by Valentine Cameron Prinsep
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  Endymion by Briton Riviere
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  The Trial of Queen Catherine by Laslett John Pott
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  Courship in Cairo by Théodore Ralli
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  The Armada in Sight by John Seymour Lucas
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  The Welcome Letter by George Hardy
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  The House Builders by Frank Dicksee
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  The Misses Santley by Henry Scott Tuke
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  Charles Barry by Lowes Cato Dickinson
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  George Graham by Frank Holl
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  William Henry Barlow by John Collier
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  Henry Irving as Hamlet by Edwin Long
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  Henry Parry Liddon by George Richmond
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  Edward Baring by Rudolf Lehmann
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  The Dean's Daughter, a portrait of Lily Langtry by George Frederic Watts
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  Eveleen Myers by George Frederic Watts
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  Charles West Cope by Henry Tanworth Wells
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  Self-Portrait by John Everett Millais
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  Luther Holden by John Everett Millais
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  Catherine Meriel Cowell-Stepney by John Everett Millais
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  Portrait of the Prince of Wales by Jules Bastien-Lepage
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  Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt by Jules Bastien-Lepage

See also

• Salon of 1880, a contemporary art exhibition held in Paris

Bibliography

• Green, Richard & Sellars, Jane. William Powell Frith: The People's Painter. Bloomsbury, 2019.
• Payne, Christiana. Where the Sea Meets the Land: Artists on the Coast in Nineteenth-century Britain. Sanson, 2007.