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Frederick
Leighton
Paintings
Artwork
Frederick
Leighton,
Flaming
June, 1895
Frederic
Leighton
- Music
Lesson (1877)
The
Painter's
Honeymoon
c.1864 Oil
on canvas
Winding
the Skein
c.1878 Oil
on canvas
Mother and Child
c.1865
Oil on canvas
Daedalus
and Icarus
c.1869 Oil
on canvas
Leighton Lord Frederick
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (3 December 1830–25 January
1896) was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted
historical, biblical and classical subject matter, painted for Victorian
sensibilities.
Leighton was born in Scarborough. He was educated at University College
School London. He 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 Ingres,
Delacroix, Corot, and Millet. In 1860, he moved to London, where he
associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He designed Elizabeth Barrett
Browning's tomb for Robert Browning in the 'English' Cemetery, Florence,
1861. In 1864 he became an associate of the Royal Academy and in 1878
he became its president.
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. As he was unmarried
his Barony was extinguished after existing for only a day; this is an
all-time record in the Peerage. His house in Holland Park, London has
been turned into a museum, the Leighton House Museum. It contains a
number of his drawings and paintings. |
