During the years between 1869 and 1880, Hopkins completed some of her most well-known oil paintings in her studio in Hampstead, England upon returning there permanently. In 1869, Hopkins exhibited her oil painting "Canoes in a Fog, Lake Superior" at the Royal Academy in London. This marked an important turning point in her career because her popularity in Britain gradually became larger, as the romantic atmosphere her paintings possessed was highly appealing to the British audience, and they sold better on the London art market compared to that of the North American art market. The next oil painting of hers that would be exhibited at the Royal Academy was "Canoe Travelling in the Backwoods of Canada". Between the years of 1860 and 1891, Hopkins would exhibit a total of eleven times at the Royal Academy.