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Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, self portrait 1880
Born	3 December 1830(1830-12-03) Scarborough, England
Died	25 January 1896 (aged 65) London, England
Nationality	English
Field	painting and sculpture
Training	Edward von Steinle
Movement	Academicism
Famous works	Flaming June
Influenced	Frank Bernard Dicksee
Awards	Prix de Rome, Légion d'honneur

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, PRA (3 December 1830–25 January 1896) was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Timeline 2 Selected works 3 Gallery 4 See also 5 External links

Leighton was born in Scarborough to a family in the import & export profession. He was educated at University College School London. He then received his legal training on the European continent, first from Edward von Steinle and then from Giovanni Costa. When in Florence, aged 24, where he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti, he painted the procession of the Cimabue Madonna through the Borgo Allegri. He lived in Paris from 1855 to 1859, where he met Ingres, Delacroix, Corot and Millet.

In 1860, he moved to London, England, where he associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He designed Elizabeth Barrett Browning's tomb for Robert Browning in the 'English' Cemetery, Florence in 1861. In 1864 he became an associate of the Royal Academy and in 1878 he became its President (1878–96). His 1877 sculpture, Athlete Wrestling with a Python, was considered at its time to inaugurate a renaissance in contemporary British sculpture, referred to as the New Sculpture. His paintings represented Britain at the great 1900 Paris Exhibition.

Leighton was knighted at Windsor in 1878, and was created a baronet eight years later. He was the first painter to be given a peerage, in the New Year Honours List of 1896. The patent creating him Baron Leighton of Stretton in the County of Shropshire, was issued on 24 January 1896; Leighton died the next day of angina pectoris.

As he was unmarried, after his death his Barony was extinguished after existing for only a day; this is an all-time record in the Peerage. His house in Holland Park, London has been turned into a museum, the Leighton House Museum. It contains a number of his drawings and paintings, as well as some of his sculptures (including Athlete Wrestling with a Python). The house also features many of Leighton's inspirations, including his collection of Isnik tiles. Its centrepiece is the magnificent Arab Hall.

• 1864 - Associate of the Royal Academy
• 1868 - Royal Academy Academician
• 1878 - President of the Royal Academy
• 1878 - Légion d'honneur Officer
• 1886 - Created a Baronet
• 1889 - Wins Prix de Rome in sculpture
• 1889 - Associate member of the Institute of France
• 1896 - Raised to the British Peerage

• Death of Brunelleschi (1852), oil on canvas
• The Fisherman and the Siren, c. 1856 - 1858 (66.3 x 48.7 cm)
• Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna is carried in Procession through the Streets of Florence (1853-5), oil on canvas. This was his first major work and was exhibited at the Royal Academy. Queen Victoria was so taken with it that she bought it for 600 guineas on the opening day of the exhibition.
• The Discovery of Juliet Apparently Lifeless (c.1858)
• The Villa Malta, Rome (1860s), oil on canvas
• The Painter's Honeymoon, c. 1864 (83.8 x 77.5 cm)
• Mother and Child, c. 1865, (48.2 x 82 cm)
• Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore (1868), oil on canvas, (57.2 x 102.2 cm) National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
• Daedalus and Icarus, c. 1869, (138.2 x 106.5 cm)
• Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestis (1869-71) (132.4 x 265.4 cm)
• Greek Girls Picking up Pebbles by the Sea, 1871 (84 x 129.5 cm)
• Music Lesson, c. 1877, (92.8 x 118.1 cm)
• An Athlete Wrestling with a Python (1877), bronze sculpture
• Nausicaa, c. 1878 (145 x 67 cm)
• Winding the Skein, c. 1878, (100.3 x 161.3 cm)
• Light of the Harem, c. 1880, (152.4 x 83.8 cm)
• Wedded, (c. 1881 - 1882) (145.4 x 81 cm)
• Captive Andromache, c. 1888 (197 x 406.5 cm)
• The Bath of Psyche, (c. 1889−90) (189.2 x 62.2 cm) Tate Gallery
• The Garden of the Hesperides, c. 1892, (169 x 169 cm)
• Flaming June (1895), oil on canvas, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico (120.6 x 120.6 cm)
• 'The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins (Fresco)'
• The armlet
• Phoebe (55.88 x 60.96 cm)
• A Bather

Captive Andromache	The Last Watch of Hero	The Garden of the Hesperides	Solitude
The Sluggard	The Fisherman and the Syren, c. 1856–1858

• Romola – the novel by George Eliot for which he did the illustrations

• ArtRenewal.org gallery
• Scarborough, Birthplace of Lord Frederic Leighton
• Leighton House Museum
• Obituary from The Times
• Biography from the Cleveland Museum of Art
• 'The Garden of Hesperides' (c.1892) at the Lady Lever Art Gallery
• Brian Yoder's page for Lord Frederic Leighton at goodart.org
• Phryne's list of pictures in public galleries in the UK
• Leighton Gallery at MuseumSyndicate

Honorary titles
Preceded by Sir Francis Grant	President of the Royal Academy 1878–1896	Succeeded by Sir John Everett Millais
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New creation	Baron Leighton 1896	Succeeded by Extinct

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition article "Frederick_Leighton,_Baron_Leighton", a publication now in the public domain.

Persondata
NAME	Leighton, Frederic
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION
DATE OF BIRTH	3 December 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH	Scarborough, England
DATE OF DEATH	25 January 1896
PLACE OF DEATH	London, England