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    Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, PRA (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British Victorian...
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    west London. The building was the London home of painter Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–1896), who commissioned the architect and designer...
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    sculptures produced by the British artist Frederic Leighton. Completed in 1877, the sculpture was a departure for Leighton, and heralded the advent of a new movement...
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    Flaming June (category Paintings by Frederic Leighton)
    Flaming June is a painting by Sir Frederic Leighton, produced in 1895. Painted with oil paints on a 47-by-47-inch (1,200 mm × 1,200 mm) square canvas...
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    The Daphnephoria is an oil painting by Frederic Leighton, first exhibited in 1876. The Daphenphoria was a triumphal procession held every ninth year at...
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    with the younger artist Frederic Leighton whom he met in Florence in 1856. Greville's letters are full of nicknames for Leighton - calling him 'Fay' and...
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    Its first commanders were the painters Henry Wyndham Phillips and Frederic Leighton. The unit's badge, designed by J. W. Wyon, shows the heads of the...
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    painting by Edward Poynter (1862)[3] Orpheus and Euridice, a painting by Frederic Leighton (1864) Orpheus and Eurydice, a sculpture by Auguste Rodin (1893)[4]...
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  • curator Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849), Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), American landscape painter Frederic Leighton, 1st...
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    Lachrymae is a late 19th-century painting by British artist Lord Frederic Leighton. Done in oil on canvas, the work depicts a conceptual figure inspired...
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    Cymon and Iphigenia is an oil on canvas painting by Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton. The painting does not bear a date but was first exhibited at...
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    Andromache in Captivity by Frederic Leighton (c. 1886)...
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    Patience, a comic opera about the Aesthetic Movement which references Frederic Leighton's painting of the festival. More detail on the Daphnephoria and Daphnephoros...
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    The Painter's Honeymoon (category Paintings by Frederic Leighton)
    painter Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, produced c. 1864 and now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This is an unusual composition for Leighton, who...
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    Daunou, 1910 The Kearsarge at Boulogne The Lacemaker (Maes) Lachrymae (Frederic Leighton) Lady at the Tea Table Lady with the Rose (Charlotte Louise Burckhardt)...
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    painter Frederic Leighton displayed his Venus Disrobing for the Bath at the academy. The art critic J. B. Atkinson praised it, declaring that "Mr Leighton, instead...
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    Darby, a Yorkshire Terrier, private collection Berenice, Queen of Egypt, Leighton House Museum, London Portrait of Philip Bedingfeld LL.D, JP (undated),...
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    Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon, Frederic Leighton c. 1869...
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    painting by Frederic Leighton, first exhibited in 1868. Leighton took the subject from a love poem by the Roman poet Catullus. In 1868, Leighton was elected...
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    The Fisherman and the Syren (category Paintings by Frederic Leighton)
    The Fisherman and the Syren is an oil painting by Frederic Leighton, first exhibited in 1858. It is a composition of two small full-length figures, a...
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  • The selected works were those of Frederic Leighton and other important British Victorian painters, many of whom Leighton would have known, such as Lawrence...
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    London, England. It is especially known for Leighton House, owned by the artist Lord Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy and leading light...
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    "Frenchified" style. However, there was also much praise, and Sir Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy, encouraged the Tate Gallery to buy...
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    Jezabel and Ahab (c. 1863) by Frederic Leighton...
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    Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, Orléans Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon, by Frederic Leighton, 1868, on display at Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull Agamemnon...
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  • Willis Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–1896), English painter and sculptor George N. Leighton (1912–2018), American judge Isabel Leighton (1899-1995)...
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    The Return of Persephone, 1891, by Frederic Leighton...
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  • Francois Lemoyne Perseus and Andromeda (Leighton), an 1891 painting by Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton Perseus and Andromeda (video game), a 1983...
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    This mistake went unchallenged for centuries; in the 19th century Frederic Leighton depicted the Rucellai Madonna paraded through the streets in his first...
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    mainly on ancient Greek mythological subjects. Frederic Leighton had depicted Icarus in 1869, but while Leighton showed the preparations for the flight, Draper...
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