Lord Frederic Leighton

Lord Frederic Leighton

Biondina

Lord Frederic Leighton

Elijah in the Wilderness

Lord Frederic Leighton

Eucharis, A Girl with a Basket of Fruit

Lord Frederic Leighton

Flaming June

Lord Frederic Leighton

Garden of an Inn, Capri

Lord Frederic Leighton

Greek Girls Picking Up Pebbles by the Sea

Lord Frederic Leighton

Greek Girls Playing at Ball

Lord Frederic Leighton

Invocation

Lord Frederic Leighton

Jonathan’s Token to David

Lord Frederic Leighton

Light of the Harem

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Lindos, Rhodes

Lord Frederic Leighton

Lucia

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May Sartoris

Lord Frederic Leighton

May Sartoris, Mrs. Henry Evans Gordon

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Mrs. James Guthrie

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Music Lesson

Lord Frederic Leighton

Pavonia

Lord Frederic Leighton

Songs Without Words

Lord Frederic Leighton

Study at a Reading Desk

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The Countess Brownlow

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The Feigned Death of Juliet

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The Fisherman and the Syren

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The Hit

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The Isle of Chios

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The Villa Malta, Rome

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Weaving the Wreath

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Winding the Skein

Lord Frederic Leighton

Flaming June

Lord Frederic Leighton

The Fisherman and the Syren

Lord Frederic Leighton

Pavonia

Lord Frederic Leighton

Winding the Skein

Lord Frederic Leighton

Invocation

Lord Frederic Leighton

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.