The Council of the Royal Academy Selecting Pictures for the Exhibition, 1875 is an 1876 history painting by the British artist Charles West Cope.Bury p.274 It portrays the hanging committee of the Royal Academy in London in the process of selecting paintings to appear at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1875 at Burlington Gardens. Amongst those featured in the work are the artists John Everett Millais, who is seated in the foreground, George Richmond, Frederic Leighton, John Frederick Lewis, Edward Matthew Ward, Francis Grant, Thomas Faed, Richard Redgrave, Edward Armitage, John Callcott Horsley and James Clarke Hook. The academy's secretary Frederick A. Eaton sits writing while Cope added a self-portrait of himself at the back of the group. Cope's painting was itself displayed at the Summer Exhibition of 1876.Armitage p.165 The painting is now in the collection of the Royal Academy.https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/the-council-of-the-royal-academy-selecting-pictures-for-the-exhibition-1875
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