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Frederic Lord Leighton: An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work

Chapter 36: CHISWICK PRESS: PRINTED BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.
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A comprehensive illustrated biography traces the life, career, and artistic practice of Frederic Lord Leighton, combining chronological chapters on his early years and successive phases with discussions of painting technique, mural work, sculpture, illustration, and public reception. The volume reproduces many paintings, studies, sketches, and decorative designs, includes accounts of his studio methods and discourses on art, and describes his home and interior decorations. Appendices offer a chronological catalogue of works and sales records, while critical responses and a concluding assessment contextualize the artist's output for readers interested in his methods and legacy.

 

 

CHISWICK PRESS: PRINTED BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

 

 


Footnotes:

[1] See pages 103-114.

[2] Letter to William Allingham, May 10th, 1861.

[3] "Athenæum," April, 1864.

[4] The original title of this picture was Eastern Slinger scaring Birds in Harvest-time: Moonrise. See Illustration at p. 112.

[5] This picture was re-sold at Christie's in 1892 for 3,750 guineas.

[6] Sometimes entitled An Athlete strangling a Python.

[7] At page 62.

[8] Engraved in the "Magazine of Art," March, 1896.

[9] "Current Art" ("Magazine of Art," May, 1889).

[10] "The Studio," vol. iii.

[11] Reproductions of both of these drawings are given at p. 18.

[12] "Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Allingham," by George Birkbeck Hill, D.C.L., LL.D. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1897.

[13] "La Peinture Anglaise Contemporaine" (Paris, Hachette, 1895).

[14] "Magazine of Art," March, 1896, p. 197.

[15] The asterisk denotes works exhibited at the Winter Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1897.

[16] R.A., Royal Academy; G.G., Grosvenor Gallery; R.W.S., Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours; S.S., Royal Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street; D.G., Dudley Gallery; S.P.P., Society of Portrait Painters.

[17] Exhibited in the Roman Section, by some blunder of the Committee; the picture having been painted in Rome.

[18] Purchased for £2,000 by the President and Council of the Royal Academy, under the terms of the Chantrey Bequest.

[19] Painted by invitation for the Collection of Portraits of Artists painted by themselves in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

[20] Painted for the house of Mr. Murquand, New York.

[21] Purchased for 1,000 guineas by the President and Council of the Royal Academy, under the terms of the Chantrey Bequest.

 

 


Transcriber's note:

Additional spacing after some of the quotes is intentional to indicate both the end of a quotation and the beginning of a new paragraph as presented in the original text.

In the original text, the images are not on numbered pages. For this e-text. the images have been moved to the end of the nearest paragraph, and the links are to the images, not to the page references.