Leighton, Lord Frederic

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Biondina

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Elijah in the Wilderness

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Eucharis, A Girl with a Basket of Fruit

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Flaming June

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Garden of an Inn, Capri

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Greek Girls Picking Up Pebbles by the Sea

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Greek Girls Playing at Ball

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Invocation

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Jonathan’s Token to David

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Light of the Harem

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Lindos, Rhodes

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Lucia

Leighton, Lord Frederic

May Sartoris

Leighton, Lord Frederic

May Sartoris, Mrs. Henry Evans Gordon

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Mrs. James Guthrie

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Music Lesson

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Pavonia

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Songs Without Words

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Study at a Reading Desk

Leighton, Lord Frederic

The Countess Brownlow

Leighton, Lord Frederic

The Feigned Death of Juliet

Leighton, Lord Frederic

The Fisherman and the Syren

Leighton, Lord Frederic

The Hit

Leighton, Lord Frederic

The Isle of Chios

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The Villa Malta, Rome

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Weaving the Wreath

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Winding the Skein

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Flaming June

Leighton, Lord Frederic

The Fisherman and the Syren

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Pavonia

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Winding the Skein

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Invocation

Leighton, Lord Frederic

Music Lesson

Lord Frederic Leighton Paintings

Lord Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter. Leighton was born in Scarborough, to a family in the medical profession. He was educated at University College School London. He then received his artistic training on the European continent, first from Edward von Steinle and then from Giovanni Costa.

When in Florence, aged 24, where he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti, he painted the procession of the Cimabue Madonna through the Borgo Allegri. He lived in Paris from 1855 to 1859, where he met Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Eugene Delacroix, Jean Camille Corot, and Jean Francois Millet. In 1860, he moved to London, England, where he associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. In 1864 he became an associate of the Royal Academy and in 1878 he became its President (1878-96). Leighton was knighted at Windsor in 1878 and was created a baronet eight years later. He was the first painter to be given a peerage, in the New Year Honours List of 1896. The patent creating him Baron Leighton, of Stretton in the County of Salop, was issued on 24 January 1896; Leighton died the next day of angina pectoris.