Royal Academy Exhibition of 1857

The Pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais exhibited three works including News from Home, a scene from the Crimean War. His imagined history painting Sir Isumbras at the Ford divided critical opinion with his former supporter John Ruskin describing it as a "catastrophe".^[1] David Roberts submitted several cityscapes including The Piazza Navona at Rome. Clarkson Stanfield's maritime and landscape paintings included views of Saint-Jean-de-Luz in France and the Giant's Causeway in Ireland as well as Calm, in the Gulf of Salerno.^[2] William Powell Frith was working on his epic The Derby Day and displayed two smaller works A London Flower Girl and Kate Nickleby at Madame Mantalini's, based on the novel Nicholas Nickleby by his friend Charles Dickens.^[3]

Emily Mary Osborn attracted interest for her genre painting Nameless and Friendless showing a struggling young female artist trying to sell her work.^[4] The American artist Jasper Francis Cropsey, part of the Hudson River School, displayed An Indian Summer Morning in the White Mountains.^[5] In portraiture, Margaret Sarah Carpenter's Portrait of John Gibson featured the well-known sculptor.^[6] The future President of the Royal Academy Francis Grant sent in Portrait of Daisy Grant depicted his daughter against a snow-covered background.^[7]

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  Nameless and Friendless by Emily Mary Osborn
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  Titian Preparing to make his First Essay in Colouring by William Dyce
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  News from Home by John Everett Millais
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  Sir Isumbras at the Ford by John Everett Millais
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  The Escape of a Heretic, 1559 by John Everett Millais
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  Interior of the Duomo, Milan by David Roberts
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  Kate Nickleby at Madame Mantalini's by William Powell Frith
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  A Syrian Sheik by John Frederick Lewis
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  The Prison Window by John Phillip
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  Charity by John Phillip
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  A Sculptor's Workshop, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1617 by Henry Wallis
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  Uncle Tom by Edwin Landseer
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  Waiting for the Verdict by Abraham Solomon
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  Morning After a Heavy Gale by Edward William Cooke
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  Calais Fishermen Taking In their Nets by Clarkson Stanfield
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  An Indian Summer Morning in the White Mountains by Jasper Francis Cropsey
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  Broken Vows by Philip Hermogenes Calderon
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  A Picnic by Henry Nelson O'Neil
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  Orsino and Viola by Frederick Richard Pickersgill
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  Slender's Wooing of Ann Page by Adolphus M. Madot
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  Youth and Age by John Callcott Horsley
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  Breakfast Time, Morning Games by Charles West Cope
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  The Young Brother by William Mulready
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  Esmond Returns after the Battle of Wynendael by Augustus Egg
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  Peter the Great at Deptford Dockyard by Daniel Maclise
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  Mules Drinking, Seville by Richard Ansdell
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  Heat Showers in August by Thomas Sidney Cooper
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  Scene at a Ghaut on the Banks of the Ganges by Marshall Claxton
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  Where the Nibbling Flocks do Stray by William Linnell
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  The Deserted Village by Joseph Severn
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  The Pilgrim Fathers by Charles West Cope
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  The Message by George Bernard O'Neill
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  The Last Day of the Sale by George Bernard O'Neill
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  For Sale by James Collinson
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  The Arrest by John Evan Hodgson
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  God Save the Queen by Henrietta Ward
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  Charles Lock Eastlake by John Prescott Knight
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  Isambard Kingdom Brunel by John Callcott Horsley
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  Leopold McClintock by Stephen Pearce
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  Roderick Murchison by Stephen Pearce
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  Sherard Osborn by Stephen Pearce
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  Francis Beaufort by Stephen Pearce
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  Lord Murray by John Watson Gordon
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  John Bell by John Lucas
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  John Stewart, Mayor of Liverpool by John Ewart Robertson
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  Thomas Henry Wyatt by George Landseer
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  Lyon Playfair by Henry William Pickersgill
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  Earl Manvers by Henry William Pickersgill
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  Henry Ellis by Margaret Sarah Carpenter
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  Portrait of John Gibson by Margaret Sarah Carpenter
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  Portrait of Daisy Grant by Francis Grant
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  Mrs Peel by Francis Grant
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  Sir George Pollock by Francis Grant
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  Queen Victoria by Charles-Édouard Boutibonne
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  Prince Albert by Charles-Édouard Boutibonne

• Salon of 1857, a contemporary French exhibition held in Paris