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Lord Frederic Leighton was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, the son of a physician. His family journeyed extensively through Europe, granting the young boy the advantage of being able study in many countries. By a young age, Frederick had become fluent in several European languages. During 1832 the family resettled to London however, during 1840, moved to Rome. Although Lord Leighton's father preferred that his son were to follow a vocation in medicine and become a doctor, once Frederick declared that his personal choice in life would be to become a painter, his father stood behind his son's wishes. Leighton's education was throughout Europe, however his most significant influence was found in Frankfurt with the Nazarene art movement follower, painter Baron Steinle.

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Flaming June - Lord Frederick Leighton

Biography

Lord Frederick Leighton is believed the most significant painter of the classic revival style, and he is famous for his neo-classical manner of painting, as well as travels to the Middle East which instilled in him an interest in Orientalism. His early work comprised of primarily historical topics, especially subjects out of the Middle Ages, which at the time was similar to the themes of the Pre-Raphaelites. In 1854 he opened his personal studio in Rome and in 1855 placed the painting titled Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna is Carried in Procession Trough the Streets of Rome in the Royal Academy. This painting brought him his first success in his artistic career. It was purchased from the Royal Academy by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Leighton was merely twenty-five years old at the time.

During 1858, Leighton was living in London. He encountered unfavorable responses to the Royal Academy's 'old guard' who condemned Leighton's continental manner. His art was badly exhibited with poor lighting, however Leighton kept painting and contributed work at the Academy until he could no longer be disregarded. In 1864 Leighton was appointed RA.

A Roman Lady - Lord Frederick Leighton

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Mother and Child

Nymph of the River Artt

Light of the Harem

The Star of Bethlehem

Bracelet Giclee Print

Eucharis Girl with Basket of Fruit

Among the first of the of the Victorians to settle in the illustrious Holland Park region, Leighton filled up his home with exotic items, even going so far as to set up a Moorish fountain in what he termed his 'Arab Hall'. Before long Holland Park was the residence of various famous artists of the time with Val Prinsep, Luke Fields and Leighton's dear friend, symbolist painter George Frederick Watts. Today his former home is called simply Leighton House has been turned into a beautiful museum of his life and works.

Leighton kept showing at the Royal Academy and became recognized for his classical subjects as well as passively beautiful modeled women. He was a sculptor as well as painter of murals, most significantly his mural art in the South Kensington School of Art titled The Arts of Industry Applied to War and The Arts of Industry Applied to Peace, portraying the Crimean War. In 1878 he was appointed President of the Royal Academy, an office he committed himself to across the following two decades, landing the Academy fresh levels of prestige. Leighton was handed the rank of Baron in 1896, establishing him as the first artist to obtain the accolade. Previously very ill at this period, Lord Frederic Leighton passed away the same month.

Museums: Lord Frederic Leighton may be found at Leighton House Art Gallery, the National Gallery, London, the Tate Gallery, London, the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Kimbell Art Museum, Texas.

A Girl Feeding Peacocks - Lord Frederick Leighton

Selected Works

selected works list of paintings

- A Bather
- A Condottiere
- A Girl Feeding Peacocks 1863
- Acme and Septimius 1868
- Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore (1868)
- An Athlete Wrestling with a Python (1877), bronze sculpture
- An Odalisque
- And the Sea Gave Up the Dead Which Were In It 1892
- Athlete struggling with a Python
- Captive Andromache
- Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna is Carried in Procession through the Streets of Florence, detail of right half 1653-55
- Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna is Carried in Procession through the Streets of Florence, detail of left half 1653-55
- Clytemnestra watching for the Return of Agamemnon
- Cymon and Iphigenia 1884
- Daedalus and Icarus, c. 1869
- Death of Brunelleschi (1852)
- Elijah in the Wilderness
- Eucharis (A Girl with a Basket of Fruit) 1863
- Flaming June 1895
- Golden Hours 1864
- Greek Girls picking up Pebbles by the Sea 1871
- Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestis (1869-71)
- Industrial Arts as applied to War, Industrial Arts as applied to Peace-
- Invocation 1889
- Jonathan's Token to David 1868
- Lachrymas
- Leander
- Light of the Harem
- Lucia
- Mother and Child (Cherries) 1865
- Music Lesson 1877
- Nausicaa, c. 1878 (145 x 67 cm)
- Othello and Desdemona
- Pavonia 1859
- Phoebe
- Phoenicians bartering with Britons
- Portrait of Sir Richard Burton
- Prometheus on Pegasus with the Gorgon's Head
- Return of Persephone
- Self-Portrait 1880
- Sisters 1862
- St. Jerome
- The Armlet
- The Bath of Psyche
- The Discovery of Juliet Apparently Lifeless (c.1858)
- The Fisherman and the Siren, c. 1856 - 1858
- The Garden of the Hesperides
- The Last Watch of Hero
- The Painter's Honeymoon, 1864
- The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
- The Return of Persephone 1891
- The Sluggard
- The Syracusan Bride leading Wild Animals in Procession to the Temple of Diana 1866
- The Villa Malta, Rome (1860s)
- The Wise and Foolish Virgins
- Wedded
- Winding the Skein 1878
- with a Predella