- Also known as
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Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton
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primary name: Leighton, Frederic
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other name: (Baron) Leighton of Stretton
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other name: (Sir) Leighton, Frederic
- Details
- individual; painter/draughtsman; sculptor/medallist; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1830-1896
- Biography
- Painter and occassional draughtsman illustrator on wood; trained in Rome, Florence and Frankfurt; returned to London in 1859 and elected RA in 1868. President of RA from 1878, and therefore ex-officio Trustee of BM. Elected to Trustees' Standing Committee 14 May 1891. Created a peer in 1896.
- Bibliography
- DNB; R.K.Engen, 'Dictionary of Victorian Wood Engravers', 1985
L. and R. Ormond, 'Lord Leighton', Yale, 1975
De Gruyter
C. Newall, 'The Art of Lord Leighton', Oxford 1990
S. Jones, et al, 'Frederick Lord Leighton, Eminent Victorian Artist', exh. cat. RA, 1996
T. Barringer and E. Prettejohn, eds, 'Frederic Leighton: Antiquity Renaissance Modernity', Yale, 1999
London, Leighton House Museum, 'A Victorian Master: Drawings by Frederic, Lord Leighton', exh. cat., London and elsewhere, 2006-8
There is a website for his drawings, run from Leighton House: http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/lordleightonsdrawings/ldcollection
