Royal Academy Exhibition of 1821

The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1821 was an art exhibition held at Somerset House in London from 7 May to 14 July 1821. It was the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts. The exhibition featured many prominent painters, sculptors and architects and was open to submissions to non-Academy members and artists from abroad. J.M.W. Turner was a notable absentee, he did not submit any paintings that year. Today the exhibition is remembered for John Constable's The Hay Wain and the lack of interest it generated.