TheRoyal Academy Exhibition of 1793 was the twenty fifth annual Summer Exhibition of the BritishRoyal Academy of Arts. Staged atSomerset House InLondon between 29 April and 8 June 1793, it was the first to be held since Britain had entered theFrench Revolutionary Wars following theFrench Republic's declaration of war.^[1]

ThePresident of the Royal AcademyBenjamin West submitted thehistory paintingsEdward III with the Black Prince after the Battle of Crecy andQueen Philippa at the Battle of Neville's CrosscommissionedbyGeorge III forWindsor Castle, as well as thereligious workPaul and Barnabas at Lystra. His fellow AmericanJohn Singleton Copley sent in a workThe Red Cross Knight to the Academy for the first time in seven years.^[2]

Thomas Lawrence, a rising artist who had made his name with polishedportraits attempted to move into history painting withProspero Raising the Storm, but he was disappointed by the critical reaction and later painted it over.^[3] Meanwhile the 17 year oldJ.M.W. Turner displayed an oil paintingThe Rising Squall, a view of the River Avon nearBristol. The painting, for many years mis-categorised as awatercolour and considered lost, was rediscovered and auctioned in 2025 as Turner's earliest exhibited oil painting.^[4]

William Beechey'sSir Francis Ford's Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy, combining portrait and genre painting, as one of the major hits of the exhibition.^[5]Francis Wheatley exhibited several of hisThe Cries of London series, featuring scenes of everyday city life.

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  Edward III with the Black Prince after the Battle of Crécy byBenjamin West
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  Queen Philippa at the Battle of Neville's Cross byBenjamin West
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  The Rising Squall, Hot Wells byJ.M.W. Turner
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  The Red Cross Knight byJohn Singleton Copley
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  John Philip Kemble inCoriolanus byFrancis Bourgeois
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  Funeral Procession of a White Friar byFrancis Bourgeois
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  Portrait of theDuke of Clarence byThomas Lawrence
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  Portrait ofSir George Beaumont byThomas Lawrence
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  The Stack Rock byJulius Caesar Ibbetson
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  Foudroyant and Pégase entering Portsmouth Harbour byDominic Serres
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  View of Ludgate Hill byWilliam Marlow
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  Interior View of Westminster Abbey on the Commemoration of Handel byEdward Edwards

• Salon of 1793, an exhibition held in Paris the same year

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