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Lord Frederick Leighton
English Academic painter, sculptor, illustrator - writer
born 1830 - died 1896
Born in: Scarborough (England).
Died in: London (Greater London, England).
Student of: Edward von Steinle (1810-1886).
Teacher of: Frank Dicksee (1853-1928), William Hamo Thornicroft (1850-1925).
Mentor to: Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934), Charles Edward Perugini (1839-1918).
Patron of: Walter Crane (1845-1915), Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934).
Associate member of: Royal Academy of Art (from 1864).
Full member of: Royal Academy of Art (from 1868).
President of: Royal Academy of Art (from 1878).
Member of: Hogarth Club.
The leading establishment figure in Victorian art, was the first painter
to be en-nobled. He was President of the Royal Academy for almost two
decades, - his presidency was a time of unrivalled prestige, - success.
Lord Frederick Leighton carried out his duties with panache, -
scrupulous fairness. He was a classical painter producing highly
finished pictures, - was also an excellent portraitist (see his portrait
of Sir Richard Burton the explorer - orientalist). Lord
Frederick
Leighton was a sophisticated, cosmopolitan figure, much of his early
life having been spent in Germany - Italy. The Lord Frederick Leighton
family was financially independent, his grandfather having been Doctor
to the Russian Royal Family. Lord Frederick Leighton�s father was also
a Doctor, but retired in middle-life due to the onset of deafness.
Lord Frederick Leighton enrolled in the Berlin School of art in his early
teens, having lied about his age. The following year he enrolled in an
Art Academy in Florence. The Nazarenes - Italian Renaissance painters
were considerable early influences. His cosmopolitan early life exposed
him to a wider range of influences than any other English painter of his
day. Many people now believe that his decorative pictures of the 1870s
represent his best work, though his large classical pictures remain
extremely impressive.
View artworks’ titles of oil painting old master Lord Frederick Leighton
Lord Frederick 1830-1896
0 Captive Andromache
0 Captive Andromache left
0 Cimabue-s Celebrated Madonna left detail
0 Cimabue-s Celebrated Madonna right detail
0 Cimabue-s Madonna
0 The Daphnephoria
0 The Daphnephoria left detail
0 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and the Capulets supply oil
paintings reproduction Leighton Lord Frederick
3 Clytie
3 Courtyard of a Mosque at Broussa 1867 36.3x26.4cm
3 Study of a Lemon Tree
4 A Nile Woman
4 Acme and Septimus c1868
4 Actaea the Nymph of the Shore c1868
4 At the Fountain
4 Biondina
4 Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon c1868-9 150x75.5cm
supply paintings reproduction Leighton Lord Frederick
4 Eucharis A Girl with a Basket of Fruit
4 Faticida
4 Flaming June
4 Frederic Antigone
4 Garden of an Inn Capri
4 Girl
4 Girl in Green
4 Gulnihal
4 Invocation
supply paintings reproduction Leighton Lord Frederick
4 Lachrymae |
