Leighton, Frederick
1830 - Born on December 31st in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. English painter and sculptor.
1840 - He learned drawing at Rome under Signor Meli.
1843-1844 - He was sent to school at Frankfurt and accompanied his family to Florence, where his future career as an artist was decided.
1848 - He went to Brussels, where he met Wiertz and Gallait, and painted some pictures, including "Cimabue finding Giotto", and a portrait of himself.
1855 - The first picture by which he became known to the British public was "Cimabue's Madonna carried in Procession through the Streets of Florence", which appeared at the Royal Academy.
1866-1891 - Amongst the finest of his classical pictures were "Syracusan Bride leading Wild Beasts in Procession to the Temple of Diana", "Venus disrobing for the Bath", "Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon", and "Helios and Rhodos", "Hercules wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestis", "Clytemnestra", "The Daphnephoria", "Nausicaa", "An Idyll", two lovers under a spreading oak listening to the piping of a shepherd and gazing on the rich plain below; "Phryne", a nude figure standing in the sun; "Cymon and Iphigenia", "Captive Andromache", now in the Manchester Art Gallery; with the "Last Watch of Hero", "The Bath of Psyche", now in the Chantrey Bequest collection; "The Garden of the Hesperides", "Perseus and Andromeda" and "The Return of Persephone", now in the Leeds Gallery; and "Clytie", his last work.
1896 - Died on January 25th in Leighton House, Holland Park, London, England.
1840 - He learned drawing at Rome under Signor Meli.
1843-1844 - He was sent to school at Frankfurt and accompanied his family to Florence, where his future career as an artist was decided.
1848 - He went to Brussels, where he met Wiertz and Gallait, and painted some pictures, including "Cimabue finding Giotto", and a portrait of himself.
1855 - The first picture by which he became known to the British public was "Cimabue's Madonna carried in Procession through the Streets of Florence", which appeared at the Royal Academy.
1866-1891 - Amongst the finest of his classical pictures were "Syracusan Bride leading Wild Beasts in Procession to the Temple of Diana", "Venus disrobing for the Bath", "Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon", and "Helios and Rhodos", "Hercules wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestis", "Clytemnestra", "The Daphnephoria", "Nausicaa", "An Idyll", two lovers under a spreading oak listening to the piping of a shepherd and gazing on the rich plain below; "Phryne", a nude figure standing in the sun; "Cymon and Iphigenia", "Captive Andromache", now in the Manchester Art Gallery; with the "Last Watch of Hero", "The Bath of Psyche", now in the Chantrey Bequest collection; "The Garden of the Hesperides", "Perseus and Andromeda" and "The Return of Persephone", now in the Leeds Gallery; and "Clytie", his last work.
1896 - Died on January 25th in Leighton House, Holland Park, London, England.
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