The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1845 was the seventy seventh annual Summer Exhibition organised by the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the National Gallery in London between 5 May and 26 July 1845 and featured submissions from notable artists and architects from the early Victorian era.https://chronicle250.com/1845#catalogue
J.M.W. Turner submitted a number of paintings including a number depicting views of Venice. He also displayed two paintings featuring scenes of whaling, probably with the hope of selling them to his patron Elhanan Bicknell who was involved in the trade.https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-whalers-n00545 Richard Redgrave enjoyed success with his genre painting The Governess.Hughes p.128
Clarkson Stanfield displayed The Capture of the El Gamo, a depiction of a naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars.Tomlinson p.70 In addition he submitted his landscape Trajan's Arch, Ancona.Van der Merwe & Took p.133 Francis Grant displayed several fashionable society portraits including one of the Anglo-Irish aristocrat the Marquess of Londonderry.
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See also Royal Academy Exhibition of 1844, the previous year's exhibition Salon of 1845, a contemporary French exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris
References
Bibliography Bailey, Anthony. J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun. Tate Enterprises Ltd, 2013. Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life. Sceptre, 1998. Hughes, Kathryn. The Victorian Governess. Bloomsbury, 2001. Tomlinson, Barbara. Commemorating the Seafarer: Monuments, Memorials and Memory. Boydell Press, 2015. Van der Merwe, Pieter & Took, Roger. The Spectacular Career of Clarkson Stanfield. Tyne and Wear County Council Museums, 1979.