See also:BARON See also:FREDERICK See also:LEIGHTON LEIGHTON (183o–1896)
, See also:English painter and sculptor, the son of a physician, was See also:born at See also:Scarborough on the 3rd of See also:December 183o
.
His grandfather, See also:Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Leighton, also a physician, was See also:long See also:resident at the See also:court of St See also:Petersburg
.
See also:Frederick Leighton was taken abroad at a very See also:early See also:age
.
In 184o he learnt See also:drawing at See also:Rome under Signor Meli
.
The See also:family moved to See also:Dresden and See also:Berlin, where he attended classes at the See also:Academy
.
In 1843 he was sent to school at See also:Frankfort, and in the See also:winter of 1844 accompanied his family to See also:Florence, where his future career as an artist was decided
.
There he studied under Bezzuoli and Segnolini at the Accademia delle Belle Arti, and attended See also:anatomy classes under Zanetti; but he soon returned to See also:complete his See also:general See also:education at See also:Frank-fort, receiving no further See also:direct instruction in See also:art for five years
.
He went to See also:Brussels in 1848, where he met Wiertz and See also:Gallait, and painted some pictures, including " See also:Cimabue finding See also:Giotto," and a portrait of himself
.
In 1849 he studied for a few months in See also:Paris, where he copied See also:Titian and CorreggiQ in the Louvre, and then returned to Frankfort, where he settled down to serious art See also:work under See also:Edward Steinle, whose See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil he declared he was " in the fullest sense of the See also:term." Though his See also:artistic training was mainly See also:German, and his See also:master belonged to the same school as See also:Cornelius and See also:Overbeck, he loved See also:Italian art and See also:Italy and the first Picture by which he became known to the See also:British public was " C imabue's Madonna carried in Procession through the
Streets of Florence," which appeared at the Royal Academy in 18J5
.
At this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the See also:works of the Pre-Raphaelites almost absorbed public See also:interest in art—it was the See also:year of See also:Holman See also:Hunt's " See also:Light of the See also:World," and the " See also:- RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)
Rescue," by See also:Millais
.
Yet Leighton's picture, painted in quite a different See also:style, created a sensation, and was See also:purchased by See also:Queen See also:Victoria
.
Although, since his See also:infancy, he had only visited See also:England once (in 1851, when he came to see the See also:Great See also:Exhibition), he was not quite unknown in the cultured and artistic world of See also:London, as he had made many See also:friends during a See also:residence in Rome of some two years or more after he See also:left Frankfort in 1852
.
Amongst these were Giovanni See also:Costa, See also:Robert See also:Browning, James See also:Knowles, See also:George See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
Mason and Sir Edward See also:Poynter, then a youth, whom he allowed to work in his studio
.
He also met See also:Thackeray, who wrote from Rome to the See also:young Millais: " Here is a versatile young See also:dog, who will run you See also:close for the presidentship one of these days." During these years he painted several Florentine subjects—"Tybalt and Romeo," " The See also:Death of See also:Brunelleschi," a See also:cartoon of " The Pest in Florence according to See also:Boccaccio," and " The Reconciliation of the Montagues and the Capulets." He now turned his See also:attention to themes of classic See also:legend, which at first he treated in a " Romantic spirit." His next picture, exhibited in 1856, was " The See also:Triumph of See also:Music: See also:Orpheus by the See also:Power of his Art redeems his Wife from Hades." It was not a success, and he did not again exhibit till 1858, when he sent a little picture of " The Fisherman and the Syren " to the Royal Academy, and " See also:Samson and See also:Delilah " to the Society of British Artists in See also:Suffolk See also:Street
.
In 1858 he visited London and made the acquaintance of the leading Pre-Raphaelites—See also:Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Millais
.
In the See also:spring of 1859 he was at See also:Capri, always a favourite resort of his, and made many studies from nature, including a very famous drawing of a See also:lemon See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree
.
It was not till 186o that he settled in London, when he took up his quarters at 2 See also:Orme Square, Bayswater, where he stayed till, in 1866, he moved to his celebrated See also:house in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland See also:Park Road, with its Arab See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall decorated with See also:Damascus tiles
.
There he lived till his death
.
He now began to fulfil the promise of his " Cimabue," and by such pictures as " See also:Paolo e Francesca," " The See also:Star of See also:Bethlehem," " See also:Jezebel and See also:Ahab taking See also:Possession of Naboth's Vineyard," " See also:Michael Angelo musing over his Dying Servant," " A Girl feeding Peacocks," and " The See also:Odalisque," all exhibited in 1861-1863, See also:rose rapidly to the See also:head of his profession
.
The two latter pictures were marked by the See also:rhythm of See also:line and luxury of See also:colour which are among the most See also:constant attributes of his art, and may be regarded as his first dreams of See also:Oriental beauty, with which he afterwards showed so great a sympathy
.
In 1864 he exhibited " See also:Dante in See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
Exile " (the greatest of his Italian pictures), " Orpheus and See also:Eurydice" and " See also:Golden See also:Hours." In the winter of the same year he was elected an See also:Associate of the Royal Academy
.
After this the See also:main effort of his See also:life .was to realize visions of beauty suggested by classic myth and See also:history
.
If we add to pictures of this class a few Scriptural subjects, a few Oriental dreams, one or two of See also:tender sentiment like " Wedded " (one of the most popular of his pictures, and well known by not only an See also:engraving, but a statuette modelled by an Italian sculptor), a number of studies of very various types of See also:female beauty, " Teresina,"
Biondina," " Bianca," " Moretta," &c., and an occasional portrait, we shall nearly exhaust the two classes into which See also:Lord Leighton's work (as a painter) can be divided
.
Amongst the finest of his classical pictures were—" Syracusan See also:- BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)
Bride leading See also:Wild Beasts in Procession to the See also:Temple of See also:Diana " ( 1866), " See also:Venus disrobing for the See also:Bath " (1867), " See also:Electra at the See also:Tomb of See also:Agamemnon," and " Helios and Rhodos " (1869), " See also:Hercules See also:wrestling with Death for the See also:Body of See also:Alcestis " (1871), " Clytemnestra " (1874), " The See also:Daphnephoria " (1876), " See also:Nausicaa " (1878), " An Idyll " (1881), two lovers under a spreading See also:oak listening to the piping of a shepherd and gazing on the See also:rich See also:plain below; " See also:Phryne " (1882), a nude figure See also:standing in the See also:sun; " Cymon and Iphigenia " (1884), " See also:Captive See also:Andromache " (1888), now in the See also:Manchester Art See also:Gallery; with the " Last See also:Watch of See also:Hero " (1887), " The Bath of See also:Psyche " (1890), now in the See also:Chantrey See also:Bequest collection; " The Gardenof the See also:Hesperides " (1892), " See also:Perseus and See also:Andromeda " and " The Return of Persephone," now in the See also:Leeds Gallery (1891); and " Clytie," his last work (1896)
.
All these pictures are characterized by See also:nobility of conception, by almost perfect draughtsmanship, by colour which, if not of the highest quality, is always See also:original, choice and effective
.
They often reach distinction and dignity of attitude and gesture, and occasionally, as in the " Hercules and Death, " the " Electra " and the " Clytemnestra," a See also:noble intensity of feeling
.
Perhaps, amidst the great variety of qualities which they possess, none is more universal and more characteristic than a rich elegance, combined with an almost fastidious selection of beautiful forms
.
It is the super-See also:eminence of these qualities, associated with great decorative skill, that make the splendid See also:pageant of the "Daphnephoria " the most perfect expression of his individual See also:genius
.
Here we have his See also:composition, his colour, his sense of the joy and See also:movement of life, his love of art and nature at their purest and most spontaneous, and the result is a work without a See also:rival of its See also:kind in the British School
.
Leighton was one of the most thorough draughtsmen of his See also:day
.
His sketches and studies for his pictures are numerous and very highly esteemed
.
They contain the essence of his conceptions, and much of their spiritual beauty and subtlety of expression was often lost in the elaboration of the finished picture
.
He seldom succeeded in retaining the freshness of his first See also:idea more completely than in his last picture—" Clytie
—which was left unfinished on his easel
.
He rarely painted sacred subjects
.
The most beautiful of his few pictures of this kind was the " See also:David musing on the Housetop" (1865)
.
Others were " See also:Elijah in the See also:Wilderness " (1879), " See also:Elisha raising the Son of the Shunammite " (1881) and a See also:design intended for the decoration of the See also:dome of St See also:Paul's See also:Cathedral, " And the See also:Sea gave up the Dead which were in it " (1892), now in the See also:Tate Gallery, and the terrible " Rizpah " of 1893
.
His diploma picture was " St See also:Jerome," exhibited in 1869
.
Besides these pictures of sacred subjects, he made some designs for Dalziel's See also:Bible, which for force of See also:imagination excel the paintings
.
The finest of these are " See also:Cain and See also:Abel," and " Samson with the See also:Gates of See also:Gaza."
Not so easily to be classed, but among the most individual and beautiful of his pictures, are a few of which the See also:motive was purely aesthetic
.
Amongst these may specially be noted " The Summer See also:- MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
Moon," two See also:Greek girls sleeping on a See also:marble See also:bench, and "The Music See also:Lesson," in which a lovely little girl is seated on her lovely young See also:mother's See also:lap learning to See also:play the See also:lute
.
With these, as a work produced without any See also:literary See also:suggestion, though very different in feeling, may be associated the "Eastern Slinger scaring Birds in the See also:Harvest-time: Moon-rise " (1875), a nude figure standing on a raised See also:platform in a See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of See also:wheat
.
Leighton also painted a few portraits, including ,those of Signor Costa, the Italian landscape painter, Mr F
.
P
.
See also:Cockerell, Mrs See also:Sutherland Orr (his See also:sister), Amy, See also:Lady See also:Coleridge, Mrs See also:Stephen Ralli and (the finest of all) Sir See also:Richard See also:Burton, the traveller and Eastern See also:scholar, which was exhibited in 1876 and is now in the See also:National Portrait Gallery
.
Like other painters of the day, notably G
.
F
.
See also:Watts, Lord Leighton executed a few pieces of See also:sculpture
.
His " See also:Athlete struggling with a See also:Python " was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1877, and was purchased for the Chantrey Bequest collection
.
Another statue, " The Sluggard," of equal merit, was exhibited in 1886; and a charming statuette of a nude figure of a girl looking over her See also:shoulder at a See also:frog, called "Needless Alarms," was completed in the same year, and presented by the artist to Sir See also:John Millais in See also:acknowledgment of the See also:gift by the latter of his picture, " Shelling Peas." He made the beautiful design for the See also:reverse of the See also:Jubilee See also:Medal of 1887
.
It was also his See also:habit to make See also:sketch See also:models in See also:wax for the figures in his pictures, many of which are in the possession of the Royal Academy
.
As an illustrator in See also:black and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white he also deserves to be remembered, especially for the cuts to Dalziel's Bible, already mentioned, and his illustrations to George See also:Eliot's Rorola, which appeared in the Cornhill See also:Magazine
.
The latter are full of the spirit of
Florence and the Florentines, and show a keen sense of See also:humour, elsewhere excluded from his work
.
Of his decorative paintings, the best known are the elegant compositions (in spirit See also:fresco) on the walls of the Victoria and See also:Albert Museum, representing " The See also:Industrial Arts of See also:War and See also:Peace." There, also, is the refined and spirited figure of " Cimabue " in See also:mosaic
.
In See also:Lyndhurst See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church are mural decorations to the memory of Mr See also:Pepys Cockerell, illustrating " The See also:Parable of the See also:Wise and Foolish Virgins."
Leighton's life was throughout marked by distinction, artistic and social
.
Though not tall, he had a See also:fine presence and See also:manners, at once genial and courtly
.
He was welcomed in all See also:societies, from the See also:palace to the studio
.
He spoke German, Italian and See also:French, as well as English
.
He had much See also:taste and love for music, and considerable gifts as an orator of a florid type
.
His Presidential Discourses (published, London, 1896) were full of elegance and culture
.
For seven years (1876—1883) he commanded the loth See also:Middlesex (Artists) See also:Rifle See also:Volunteers, retiring with the See also:rank of honorary See also:colonel, and subsequently receiving the Volunteer Decoration
.
Yet no socialattractionsorsuccesses diverted him from his devotion to his profession, the welfare of his brethren in art or of the Royal Academy
.
As See also:president he was punctilious in the See also:discharge of his duties, ready to give help and encouragement to artists young and old, and his See also:tenure of the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office was marked by some wise and liberal reforms
.
He frequently went abroad, generally to Italy, where he was well known and appreciated
.
He visited See also:Spain in 1866, See also:Egypt in 1868, when he went up the See also:Nile with See also:Ferdinand de See also:Lesseps in a steamer See also:- LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")
lent by the See also:Khedive
.
He was at Damascus for a See also:short time in 1873
.
It was his See also:custom on all these trips to make little lively sketches of landscape and buildings
.
These fresh little See also:flowers of his leisure used to decorate the walls of his studio, and at the See also:sale of its contents after his death realized considerable prices
.
It was when he was in the full See also:tide of his popularity and success, and apparently in the full tide of his See also:personal vigour also, that he was struck with angina pectoris
.
For a long time he struggled bravely with this cruel disease, never omitting except from See also:absolute See also:necessity any of his See also:official duties except during a brief See also:period of See also:rest abroad, which failed to produce the desired effect
.
His death occurred on the 25th of See also:January 1896
.
Leighton was elected an Academician in 1868, and succeeded Sir See also:Francis See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant as President in 1878, when he was knighted
.
He was created a See also:baronet in 1886, and was raised to the See also:peerage in 1896, a few days before his death
.
He held honorary degrees at the See also:universities of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, See also:Cambridge, See also:Dublin, See also:Edinburgh and See also:Durham, was an Associate of the See also:Institute of See also:France; a See also:Commander of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour, and of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order of See also:Leopold
.
He was a See also:Knight of the See also:Coburg Order, " Dem Verdienste,". and of the Prussian Order, " Pour le Write," and a member of at least ten See also:foreign See also:Academies
.
In 1859 he won a medal of the second class at the Paris See also:Salon, and at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 a See also:gold medal
.
As a sculptor he was awarded a medal of the first class in 1878 and the See also:Grand Prix in 1889
.
See Art See also:Annual (Mrs A
.
See also:Lang), 1884; Royal Academy See also:Catalogue, Winter Exhibition, 1897; National Gallery of British Art Catalogue; C
.
See also:Monkhouse, British Contemporary Artists (London, 1899) ; Ernest Rhys, Frederick, Lord Leighton (London, 1898, 1900)
.
(C
.
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