The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1801 was the thirty third annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts, held at Somerset House in London from 27 April to 13 June 1801. It featured more than a thousand works by leading artists and architects of the period and attracted nearly fifty thousand visitors.https://chronicle250.com/1801#catalogue
The French-born artist Philip James de Loutherbourg exhibited Coalbrookdale by Night, a romantic landscape painting inspired by the Industrial Revolution.Murray p.696 He also exhibited pendant paintings of Conway Castle and Harlech Castle in Wales.https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2008/important-old-master-paintings-including-european-works-of-art-n08404/lot.341.html J.M.W. Turner displayed the seascape Dutch Boats in a Gale, inspired by the works of Dutch seventeenth century Old Masters.Isham p.38 In addition he produced the now lost biblical history painting The Army of the Medes Destroyed in the Desart by a Whirlwind.https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-study-for-the-army-of-the-medes-destroyed-in-the-desert-by-a-whirlwind-d05067 Thomas Lawrence submitted several of his elegant portrait paintings. His friend and rival Martin Archer Shee produced his Portrait of the Duke of Clarence, featuring the future William IV, and a portrait of the leading actor John Philip Kemble. William Beechey displayed his Portrait of Horatio Nelson featuring the celebrated Royal Navy admiral. Amongst other works William Hamilton submitted a scene featuring Musidora from James Thomson's The Seasons.
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See also Salon of 1801, a French art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris
References
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