![]() ![]() '(The) figure is deliciously graceful, and in robes of lovely colour, richly embroidered, harmonises exquisitely with the scene, which is an eastern garden of deep red roses and waving trees behind are domes and minarets seen through full-flowering shrubs. Stephens, writing in his still fairly new capacity of art critic of the Athenaeum, was more lyrical. ![]() 'As well as being the result of thought and study', the Art Journal observed prosasically, 'it is a bright picture, and stands out from all round it.' F.G. in that respect the best things I have done.' When the exhibition was hung he felt that 'the "Odalisque" looks best from general aspects.' The press agreed. Leighton himself was pleased with the picture, telling his father that it and Sea Echoes, another work exhibited in 1862 (untraced), were 'very luminous, and. As he wrote to Stephens, 'I can't well (speaking quite confidentially) concieve it a great honour now.' Stephens, 'the others just above or just below - they have made up by their treatment of those they have taken for the rejection of the others.' He was finally elected ARA in 1864, although the opposition which existed to his work among the more conservative RAs rather tarnished the occasion. 'The swan girl and the "sisters" are on the line in the East Room', he told F.G. However in 1862 the tide began to turn, even though two pictures were rejected. Despite his brilliant RA debut with Cimabue's Madonna, exhibited in 1855 and bought by the Queen, Leighton had been badly treated by the hanging committee in recent years, his work being consistently poorly hung. Others included Duett, a fanciful likeness of his protégé John Hanson Walker, now in the Royal Collection Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant, recently acquired by Leighton House and The Star of Bethlehem, which was sold in these Rooms on 11 June 1993, lot 107. Similar artists.The picture was one of six which Leighton exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1862. Lord Frederic Leighton has 4 artist signature examples available in our database. askART lists Lord Frederic Leighton in 0 of its research Essays. Galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Lord Frederic Leighton as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" There are 0Īrtworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers askART's database currently holds 385 auction lots for Lord Frederic Leighton (of whichģ08 auction records sold and 1 are upcoming at auction.)Īrtist artworks for sale and wanted. He suddenly found himself the center of attention, with his paintings the talk of London. ![]() He studied in Rome as a young man and between studies romped and picnicked with opera singer Adelaide Kemble, her actress sister Fanny Kemble, the Brownings and Thackeray. He seems to have lived a charmed life he was possessed of golden good looks. Leighton was the only painter ever to be raised to the English peerage. Unlike most major artists of the nineteenth century Leighton did not study at the Royal Academy Schools, but received his training in Brussels, Paris and Frankfurt. Soon after Nicholas I became Czar in 1825 the Leighton family left Russia and spent the ensuring years traveling around Europe, giving Leighton first-hand acquaintance with its culture and treasures. His grandfather, Sir James Leighton, was court physician to Czar Alexander I of Russia. Frederic Leighton was born in Scarborough, England in 1830, the son of a doctor. ![]()
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