Lord Frederick Leighton-paintings of Lord Frederic Leighton

English painter  and sculptor Lord Frederic Leighton was born at Scarborough in the north side of England on  3 December in 1830.His works related to historical, biblical and classical theme.

And Sir Frederick Leighton and one of the best  and strong British artists of the nineteenth century . Frederick Leighton received many national and international awards and honors.
  Frederick Leighton was known very well to the members of the royal family and senior most artists, writers and politicians in the late Victorian era.


                                                                                                                                   
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 Lord Frederick Leighton was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire at the medical family. As Lord Frederick Leighton's father was a doctor, and his grandfather was the head doctor of the royal family of Russia in St. Petersburg, bringing great wealth. It has always provided a certificate of iTunes through this wealth of the family. Lord Frederick Leighton's father paid him instead of his life.Frederick Leighton's Parents were concerned about the choice of Leighton's career as Frederick Leighton wrote in a letter of 1879, "My father takes me all the facilities to learn drawing, but disapproved of the idea of being an artist unless I could be an important element in art"

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In London Frederick Leighton was educated at University College School .And in Europe, Frederick Leighton received his artistic training , firstly Frederick Leightongot lesson from Edward von Steinle and then from Juan Costa. When Frederick Leighton painted in Florence,at the age of 24, studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti, the procession of the Cimabue Madonna through the Borgo Allegri. He lived in Paris from 1855 to 1859, where he met Ingres, Delacroix, Millet and Kourou.Lord Frederic Leighton associated with the Pre-Raphaelites after moving to London, in 1860.


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Frederick Leighton_The Painter's Honeymoon (c. 1864)

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Hastening to Rescue Andromeda (1891-1894)-FrederickLeighton

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In 1878,Frederic Leighton knighted at Windsor and created Baron, Holland Park Road, in the parish of St. Mary Abbots, Kensington in London, Middlesex County,and after eight years, Frederic Leighton was the first painter to be given a title, included in the new year with honors in 1896. The patent was issued , creating Frederic Leighton into Baron Leighton, of Stretton in Shropshire, in January 24, 1896,Frederic Leighton died the day after the angina pectoris in the January 25, 1896.

It was Frederic Leighton, bearer of the nobility in the story short, after only one day a hereditary nobility has become extinct.As Frederic Leighton was not married, and after his death was put down his Barony menu for one day only, which is the record of the Peerage. Frederic Leighton's house became a museum in the Holland Park,London,titled the Leighton House Museum.


Some paintings of Lord Frederic Leighton are :

*Flaming_June,_by_Fredrick_Lord_Leighton_(1830-1896)


*Frederick_Leighton_-_Solitude


*Frederick_Leighton-Septimius


*light_of_the_harem-Fredrick_Lord_Leighton


*Fredrick_Lord_Leighton_Captive_Andromache


* Portrait-of a-Lady-Fredrick_Lord_Leighton


*The Music Lesson -Fredrick_Lord_Leighton


*Hastening to Rescue Andromeda (1891-1894) -Fredrick_Lord_Leighton


*The Fisherman and the Siren (1858) -Fredrick_Lord_Leighton


*Perseus and Andromeda (1891-1894)-Fredrick_Lord_Leighton


*Nausicaa from Homer's Ulysses -Fredrick_Lord_Leighton


*Clytie (c. 1895-1896): This painting is unfinished, Leighton was working on it when he died in 1896


*The Painter's Honeymoon (c. 1864)-Fredrick_Lord_Leighton


* The Maid With the Golden Hair -Fredrick_Lord_Leighton


A new absolutely wonderful book on Leighton just released by Abrahms (April 1996) entitled Fredrick, Lord Leighton: Eminent Victorian Artist. Anyone who is interested in Leighton's work should have it.