
The Age of Exhibitions
The reign of Queen Victoria saw a great increase in the popularity of exhibitions of all kinds. The Queen and Prince Albert attended the annual shows of the Royal Academy and made numerous purchases. Frederic Leighton’s Cimabue’s Madonna, exhibited in 1855, was the most spectacular, and resulted from a desire to help a promising artist at the beginning of his career.
The scale of some works exhibited at the Society of Painters in Watercolour, including two examples by the royal favourite Edward Corbould, suggests a conscious ambition to rival the work of painters in oil.
No paintings were displayed in the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851, but its successor and imitator in Paris in 1855 included a Fine Arts pavilion, at which Meissonier’s La Rixe was judged the star. These exhibitions promoted the application of art and design to industrial production, especially in metalwork, ceramics and glass, a subject of particular interest to Prince Albert.
Wilhelm Hensel (1794-1861)
Scene from Goethe’s Torquato Tasso: the meeting of Tasso and Leonora d’Este
Wilhelm Hensel (1794-1861)
Miriam's Song of Praise
Johann Heinrich Ludwig Möller (1814-1885)
Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844).
Johann Heinrich Ludwig Möller (1814-1885)
Peter Asmus Möller (d. 1858)
Sir Edwin Landseer (1803-73)
Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals
Sir Edwin Landseer (1803-73)
Eos
David Roberts (1796-1864)
A View in Cairo
John Martin (1789-1854)
The Eve of the Deluge
Daniel Maclise (1806-70)
A Scene from 'Undine'
William Dyce (1806-64)
The Madonna and Child
Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869)
Religion glorified by the Fine Arts
William Edward Frost (1810-77)
Una among the Fauns and Wood Nymphs
William Edward Frost (1810-77)
The Disarming of Cupid
George Cruikshank (1792-1878)
The Disturber Detected
Eduard Jakob von Steinle (1810-86)
Saint Luke painting the Virgin
Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905)
Morning
Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905)
Evening
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-73)
Florinda
Johann Michael Wittmer (1802-80)
Raphael's First Sketch of the 'Madonna della Sedia'
William Powell Frith (1819-1909)
Ramsgate Sands (Life at the Seaside)
Frederic Leighton (1830-96)
Cimabue's Madonna Carried in Procession
William Charles Thomas Dobson (1817-98)
The Almsdeeds of Dorcas
Joseph Vincent Gibson (active c. 1856-98)
The Cottage Home
Sir Joseph Noël Paton (1821-1901)
Home (The Return from the Crimea)
John Phillip (1817-67)
The Letter-Writer of Seville
Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (1815-91)
La Rixe (The Brawl)
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793-1865)
The Grandmother's Birthday
Edward Henry Corbould (1815-1905)
The Woman taken in Adultery
Edward Henry Corbould (1815-1905)
The Coronation scene from Meyerbeer's Le Prophète
Edward Henry Corbould (1815-1905)
Scene from Goethe's Faust: the appearance of the Spirit of the Earth
Edward Henry Corbould (1815-1905)
Rot Käppchen or Red Riding Hood
Edward Henry Corbould (1815-1905)
Dinah Morris preaching on the common
Edward Henry Corbould (1815-1905)
Hetty Sorrel and Captain Donnithorne in Mrs Poyser's dairy
Hippolyte Paul Delaroche (1797-1856)
Napoleon crossing the Alps, May 1800
Anna Vinet (active 1861-6)
L'Hémicycle de l'École des Beaux Arts
After Ludwig Michael von Schwanthaler (1802-48)
Twelve historical rulers of Bavaria
Richard James Wyatt (1799-1850)
Penelope with the bow of Ulysses
William Theed (1804-91)
Psyche lamenting the loss of Cupid
William Theed (1804-91)
Narcissus
Edgar George Papworth (1809-66)
Richard II and Bolingbroke entering London
Christian Daniel Rauch (1777-1857)
Victory
Edward William Wyon (1811-55)
The eagle slayer
Charles Cordier (1827-1905)
Saïd Abdallah, de la Tribu de Mayac, Royaume de Darfour
Charles Cordier (1827-1905)
Vénus africaine
Henri Joseph François, Baron de Triqueti (1804-74)
Sappho and Cupid
Guillaume Geefs (1805-83)
Paul et Virginie
Guillaume Geefs (1805-83)
Le lion amoureux
Baron Carlo Marochetti (1805-67)
Richard I, Coeur de Lion
Baron Carlo Marochetti (1805-67)
Princess Gouramma of Coorg
Baron Carlo Marochetti (1805-67)
Maharaja Dalip Singh
Carl Johann Steinhäuser (1813-79)