Gallery of the Masters 
Frederic Leighton 1st Baron Leighton
1830-1896 England/Academicism
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Brief Biography-Frederic Leighton, Lord Leighton of Stretton) was born in Scarborough in 1830. His first studies were in Rome and Florence before studying at the Städelsche Institute in Frankfurt with Eduard von Steinle. He lived in Paris for four years and eventually settled in London in 1860. His masterpiece Cimabue’s Madonna Borne in Procession was lauded by all and purchased by Queen Victoria. He became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1864 and was appointed President of the Academy in 1878. Leighton was primarily an Academician, but the Pre-Raphaelite movement also influenced him. He famously received a Peerage in 1896 and died the day after receiving it. |
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The Music
Lesson
Cimabue's
Celebrated Madonna
Perseus and
Andromeda
Cymon and
Iphigenia
The Feigned
Death of Juliet
Portrait of
May Sartoris
The
Daphnephoria
The Fisherman
and the Syren
Acme and
Septimius
Frederick-And
the Sea-
Perseus On
Pegasus
The Garden of
the Hesperides
Actaea-An Artist
Sketching-
Actaea-The Nymph
of the Shore
Bath of
Psyche
Athens with the
Genoese Tower-
Bay Scene-Island
of Rhodes
Flaming
June
Captive
Andromache
Gathering
Citrons
Biondina
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Clytie
Kittens
Idyll
Mullenmore
Island
Icarus and
Daedalus
The Honorable
Frederic Wellesley
Jonathan's Token
to David
Marine
Landscape
Villa
Malta
Memories
The
Staircase-
The
Hit
Nausicaa
Painter's
Honeymoon
Self-
portrait
Courtyard
David
Solitude
