The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1875 was the hundred and seventh annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts which was held at Burlington House in London's Piccadilly between 3 May to 2 August 1875.https://chronicle250.com/1875 It featured sunmissions from leading painters, sculptors and architects of the Victorian era. The Babylonian Marriage Market by Edwin Long was one of the most talked-about paintings on display and reflected the fashion for Orientalist subjecs, reflected in a number of works shown that year. Henry Wallis displayed Fugitives from Constantinople, depicting fleeing figures from the fallen Byzantine Empire in 1453 who would help power the Italian Renaissance.https://victorianweb.org/victorian/painting/wallis/paintings/10.html
John Everett Millais displayed his landscape painting The Fringe of the MoorRiding p.74 as well as The Deserted Garden. Frederic Leighton was an influential figure at the exhibition, reflecting his growing dominance at the Royal Academy, which would lead to his election as President three years laters.https://chronicle250.com/1875 Charles West Cope produced a depiction hanging committee's examination of submitted works for the 1875 exhibition in his painting The Council of the Royal Academy Selecting Pictures for the Exhibition, which he displayed at the subsequent Royal Academy Exhibition of 1876.Armitage p.165
Gallery
See also Salon of 1875, a contemporary art exhibition held in Paris
References
Bibliography Armitage, Jill R. Edward Armitage RA: Battles in the Victorian Art World. Troubador Publishing, 2017. Marshall, Nancy Rose & Warner, Malcolm. James Tissot: Victorian Life, Modern Love. Yale University Press, 1999. Riding, Christine. Tate British Artists: John Everett Millais. Harry N. Abrams, 2006.