Royal Academy Exhibition Of 1811
The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1811 was the forty third annual Summer Exhibition of the British Royal Academy of Arts. It was held at the Somerset House in London from 29 April to 15 June 1811 and featured submissions from leading painters, sculptors and architects of the Regency era The exhibition was attended by George IV of the United Kingdom, George, Prince of Wales who in February 1811 had been made Prince Regent following his father George III's mental illness. The Exhibition took place while British was fighting in the Peninsular War. This was reflected in the portrait Thomas Lawrence displayed of the Anglo-Irish soldier Sir Charles Stewart, a friend and patron of him. Stewart was serving as Adjutant General to Duke of Wellington, Lord Wellington at the time. It was the first of several he produced featuring Stewart, who later helped him gain major commissions from Regent for the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle. Lawrence also displayed his ''Portrait of Benjamin West (L ...
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