ABSTRACT
Most British artists took part in the Salon only once or twice, not enough to establish a sustained and regular presence which could have integrated them into the Parisian art world (in this respect the situation would be entirely different with the universal exhibitions of the second half of the century). One must also take into account the visits of French artists to Britain or of British artists to France: despite being irregular, they played an important part in the dissemination and reception of these works. The British artists at the Salon of 1824 only represented themselves; in the final analysis they gave France a partial and very incomplete image of contemporary British painting, as neither Turner nor Calcott, nor even Wilkie, Martin or Haydon were represented in the 1824 Salon. It was the first time since Hogarth and West that a British artist was celebrated in Paris while enjoying his first success in London, a fact worth underlining.
