“Recollections of the Royal Academy. No. III” from the 1873 “Fun”

Recollections of the Royal Academy. No. III

John Gordon Thomson (1841-1911)

Fun (24 May 1873): 216

In addition to mocking Pettie and Millais, frequent targets, this cartoon offers caricatures and comments on paintings by Orchardson and Prinsep.

Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

Click on image to enlarge it, click on artist’s names (except Pettie) for links to their homepages, and see below.

Recollections No. I

Recollections No. II

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The identity of the panting by Millais: This would seem to be Clarissa Bischoffsheim, which was exhibited at the 1873 R.A. and is curently in the collections of Tate Britain. For color reproduction see Millais Portraits.

Bibliography

Funnell, Peter, Malcolm Warner, Kate Flint, H. C. G, Matthew, and Léonée Ormond. Millais Portraits. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Last modified 2 March 2016