TheRoyal Academy Exhibition of 1804 was the thirty sixth annualSummer Exhibition of the BritishRoyal Academy of Arts. It was held atSomerset House inLondon between 30 April and 16 June 1804 and featured submissions from leadingartists andarchitects of the laterGeorgian era.^[1]

The exhibition continued the dispute from the previous year of as a faction of artists led byJohn Singleton Copley tried to undermine the authority of Copley's fellow AmericanBenjamin West asPresident of the Royal Academy. West defiantly displayedHagar and Ishmael a reworked painting that had caused controversy the previous year.J.M.W. Turner submitted twooil paintings and awatercolour, a limited offering by his usual standards.^[2] The following year he chose not to display at the Academy at all and held a private exhibition in his own studio.^[3]John Constable did not submit any works in 1804.^[4]

James Ward submitted a landscape featuringbulls fighting but his fellow Academicians criticised it as being too derivative ofRubens and he withdrew it.^[5] Through his place on the hanging committee the landscape painterJoseph Farington was extremely influential in securing the positioning of various artworks.^[6]

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  Portrait of Sarah Siddons byThomas Lawrence
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  Sabine Thellusson and Son byThomas Lawrence
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  Boats Carrying Out Anchors and Cables to the Dutch Men of War byJ.M.W. Turner
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  Narcissus and Echo byJ.M.W. Turner
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  Old Margate Pier byJ.M.W. Turner
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  Tiger Hunting byJames Northcote
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  Bulls Fighting in a Landscape byJames Ward
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  Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes byBenjamin West
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  Destruction of the Beast and the False Prophet byBenjamin West
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  Phaeton Asking Apollo to Drive the Sun Chariot byBenjamin West
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  Hagar and Ishamel byBenjamin West
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  Naomi and her Daughters byGeorge Dawe
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  The Sixth Trumpet Soundeth byHenry Howard
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  Henry III Replying to the Bishops byRichard Westall
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  Cottage in Ambleside byJulius Caesar Ibbetson
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  Lake Windemere byJulius Caesar Ibbetson
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  Frances Wyndham as Hebe byWilliam Beechey
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  Portrait of James Curtis byThomas Lawrence
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  Portrait ofJames Mackintosh byThomas Lawrence
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  Portrait of Mary Montagu and Her Brother byJohn Singleton Copley
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  Mrs. Richard Crowninshield Derby as St. Cecilia byJohn Singleton Copley
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  Portrait ofRobert Graham byJohn Singleton Copley
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  Portrait ofHarriet Cholmondeley byJohn Hoppner
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  Portrait ofThomas Holcroft byJohn Opie
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  Portrait ofWilliam Blizard byJohn Opie
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  Mrs Williamson as Miranda byMartin Archer Shee
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  Portrait ofPatrick Tonyn,mezzotint based on the painting byMartin Archer Shee
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  Portrait of theEarl of Moira byMartin Archer Shee

• Salon of 1804, a French art exhibition held at theLouvre inParis

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• Spencer-Longhurst, Paul.The Sun Rising Through Vapour: Turner's Early Seascapes. Third Millennium Information, 2003.

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