Rokeby Venus created National Art Collections Fund, its first campaigning triumph. King Edward VII greatly admired the painting, and anonymously provided £8,000 (£ in 2019) towards its purchase, and became Patron of the Fund thereafter. In part because he was overlooked until the mid-19th century, Velázquez found no followers and was not widely imitated. In particular, his visual and structural innovations in this portrayal of Venus were not developed by other artists until recently, largely owing to the censorship of the work. The painting remained in a series of private rooms in private collections until it was exhibited in 1857 at the
Rokeby (poem) song by William Hawes, an opera called "Rokeby Castle" by William Reeve, and a projected opera by Glinka from which only one song survives. The actor-manager William Macready wrote, produced and starred in a stage version of "Rokeby" in 1814. Another adaptation by George John Bennett, a five-act play called "Retribution, or Love's Trials", was produced at Sadler's Wells in 1850. The artist J. M. W. Turner produced a watercolour of the river Greta at Rokeby in 1822, which had been commissioned from him as an illustration to Scott's poem. The unincorporated area of Rokeby, Nebraska, is believed to be