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| Henry Tanworth Wells Volunteers at the Firing Point 1866 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| John Henry Robinson after Anthony van Dyck Queen Henrietta Maria 1867 engraving (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"This print was issued as a private plate and as a result is very scarce. The engraver John Henry Robinson presented this particular impression to the Royal Academy in a portfolio of engravings he deposited as his Diploma Work upon his election as an Academician."
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| John Everett Millais The Souvenir of Velázquez 1868 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Throughout his career Millais painted children to provoke meditations on transience, beauty and truth. By the late 1860s this painterly concern with mood and memory corresponded with the ideals of the emerging Aesthetic Movement."
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| George Richmond Portrait of Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford 1868 oil on panel (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"By the 1860s the Royal Academy had altered its rules to permit the submission of portraits as Diploma Works. Richmond took advantage of this provision, but at the same time selected a portrait with a distinctly didactic aroma."
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| Thomas Woolner Achilles shouting from the Trenches ca. 1868 marble relief (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"In 1866 Thomas Woolner was commissioned to design a Gladstone Memorial for Oxford University. The finished sculpture consisted of a bust of Gladstone resting upon a three-sided plinth decorated with carved reliefs of scenes from Homer's Iliad. The Royal Academy's sculpture is after the front panel of this plinth."
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| William Edward Frost Nymph and Cupid 1870 oil on panel (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| John Gilbert Convocation of Clergy 1870 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Sir John Gilbert was one of the best-known and most prolific illustrators of the Victorian age. Engravings from his designs enlivened books, newspapers and periodicals of the day. He produced a phenomenal 30,000 drawings for the Illustrated London News alone and was famed for the speed at which he could draw any scene requested by the editor. Gilbert's paintings of historical and literary scenes displayed a theatrical romanticism that appealed greatly to contemporary taste but led some critics to dismiss his work as 'showy' and superficial."
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| James Sant The Schoolmaster's Daughter ca. 1870 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| George Edmund Street Design for Royal Courts of Justice, Westminster 1871 drawing (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Paul Falconer Poole Remorse 1872 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| John Pettie Jacobites, 1745 1874 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"John Pettie was born in Edinburgh and first studied at the Trustees' Academy in that city. He moved to London in 1862 where he made himself known for scenes based on the romantic novels of Sir Walter Scott. The dark background of Jacobites was criticized by John Ruskin as 'slovenly' but at the same time he appreciated the 'real pathos and most subtle expression' of the group of Highlanders."
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| George Dunlop Leslie The Lass of Richmond Hill 1876 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Edward Poynter The Fortune Teller 1877 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Henry Stacy Marks Science is Measurement 1879 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| William Frederick Yeames La Biccolante, A Venetian Water-Carrier 1879 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Yeames undertook much of his artistic training in Florence and Rome before setting up a studio in London in 1859. He is best known for costumed incidents from domestic life. In La Biccolante, the artist's Diploma Work, Yeames returned to the Italian influence of his early training, depicting, according to the Magazine of Art, 'one of the white marble wells so familiar to travellers' and a girl clad in a picturesque Venetian costume."
– quoted texts adapted from Royal Academy notes