TheRoyal Academy Exhibition of 1857 was the eighty ninth annualSummer Exhibition of the BritishRoyal Academy of Arts. It was held at theNational Gallery inLondon between 4 May and 25 July 1857. It coincided with the largeManchester Art Treasures exhibition, while several major artists were too busy working on the redecoration of the rebuiltHouses of Parliament to produce paintings for the Royal Academy, althoughDaniel Maclise submittedPeter the Great at Deptford Dockyard.^[1]

ThePre-RaphaeliteJohn Everett Millais exhibited three works includingNews from Home, a scene from theCrimean War. His imaginedhistory paintingSir Isumbras at the Ford divided critical opinion with his former supporterJohn Ruskin describing it as a "catastrophe".^[1]David Roberts submitted severalcityscapes includingThe Piazza Navona at Rome.Clarkson Stanfield'smaritime andlandscape paintings included views ofSaint-Jean-de-Luz inFrance and theGiant's Causeway inIreland as well asCalm, in theGulf of Salerno.^[2]William Powell Frith was working on his epicThe Derby Day and displayed two smaller worksA London Flower Girl andKate Nickleby at Madame Mantalini's, based on the novelNicholas Nickleby by his friendCharles Dickens.^[3]

Emily Mary Osborn attracted interest for hergenre paintingNameless and Friendless showing a struggling young female artist trying to sell her work.^[4] The American artistJasper Francis Cropsey, part of theHudson River School, displayedAn Indian Summer Morning in the White Mountains.^[5] In portraiture,Margaret Sarah Carpenter'sPortrait of John Gibson featured the well-knownsculptor.^[6] The futurePresident of the Royal AcademyFrancis Grant sent inPortrait of Daisy Grant depicted his daughter against a snow-covered background.^[7]

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  Nameless and Friendless byEmily Mary Osborn
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  Titian Preparing to make his First Essay in Colouring byWilliam Dyce
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  News from Home byJohn Everett Millais
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  Sir Isumbras at the Ford byJohn Everett Millais
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  The Escape of a Heretic, 1559 byJohn Everett Millais
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  Interior of the Duomo, Milan byDavid Roberts
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  Kate Nickleby at Madame Mantalini's byWilliam Powell Frith
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  A Syrian Sheik byJohn Frederick Lewis
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  The Prison Window byJohn Phillip
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  Charity byJohn Phillip
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  A Sculptor's Workshop, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1617 byHenry Wallis
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  Uncle Tom byEdwin Landseer
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  Waiting for the Verdict byAbraham Solomon
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  Morning After a Heavy Gale byEdward William Cooke
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  Calais Fishermen Taking In their Nets byClarkson Stanfield
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  An Indian Summer Morning in the White Mountains byJasper Francis Cropsey
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  Broken Vows byPhilip Hermogenes Calderon
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  A Picnic byHenry Nelson O'Neil
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  Orsino and Viola byFrederick Richard Pickersgill
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  Slender's Wooing of Ann Page by Adolphus M. Madot
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  Youth and Age byJohn Callcott Horsley
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  Breakfast Time, Morning Games byCharles West Cope
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  The Young Brother byWilliam Mulready
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  Esmond Returns after the Battle of Wynendael byAugustus Egg
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  Peter the Great at Deptford Dockyard byDaniel Maclise
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  Mules Drinking, Seville byRichard Ansdell
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  Heat Showers in August byThomas Sidney Cooper
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  Scene at a Ghaut on the Banks of the Ganges byMarshall Claxton
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  Where the Nibbling Flocks do Stray byWilliam Linnell
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  The Deserted Village byJoseph Severn
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  The Pilgrim Fathers byCharles West Cope
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  The Message byGeorge Bernard O'Neill
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  The Last Day of the Sale byGeorge Bernard O'Neill
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  For Sale byJames Collinson
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  The Arrest byJohn Evan Hodgson
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  God Save the Queen byHenrietta Ward
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  Charles Lock Eastlake byJohn Prescott Knight
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  Isambard Kingdom Brunel byJohn Callcott Horsley
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  Leopold McClintock byStephen Pearce
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  Roderick Murchison byStephen Pearce
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  Sherard Osborn byStephen Pearce
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  Francis Beaufort byStephen Pearce
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  Lord Murray byJohn Watson Gordon
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  John Bell byJohn Lucas
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  John Stewart, Mayor of Liverpool by John Ewart Robertson
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  Thomas Henry Wyatt byGeorge Landseer
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  Lyon Playfair byHenry William Pickersgill
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  Earl Manvers byHenry William Pickersgill
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  Henry Ellis byMargaret Sarah Carpenter
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  Portrait of John Gibson byMargaret Sarah Carpenter
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  Portrait of Daisy Grant byFrancis Grant
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  Mrs Peel byFrancis Grant
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  Sir George Pollock byFrancis Grant
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  Queen Victoria byCharles-Édouard Boutibonne
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  Prince Albert byCharles-Édouard Boutibonne

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• Van der Merwe, Pieter & Took, Roger.The Spectacular Career of Clarkson Stanfield. Tyne and Wear County Council Museums, 1979.
• Wills, Catherine.High Society: The Life and Art of Sir Francis Grant, 1803–1878. National Galleries of Scotland, 2003.

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