The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton. Volume II

2. HEAD OF YOUNG GIRL (_Colour_) To face page 1 A wedding gift to H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES, who graciously gave permission for the painting to be reproduced in this book.

"In my pictures,--which are above all decorations in the real sense of the word,--the design is a pattern in which every line has its place and its proper relation to other line...

Que parlez vous de reconnaissance, mon cher Monsieur Leighton? de l'amitie je le veux bien, et je recois, a ce titre seulement, le dessin que vous m'avez envoye. Ne me suis je p...

MY DEAR FRIEND AND MASTER,--Best thanks for your dear letter of the 7th, thanks also especially, because in your kind praise you do not spare criticism also; you could give me n...

The letter written to Mrs. Mark Pattison in 1879, already quoted, contains an amusing endeavour on Leighton's part to date the various journeys he had made in answer to question...

In 1869, the year after his journeyings in Egypt, Leighton was elected a Royal Academician. The picture which he chose as his Diploma work to be deposited in the Academy on his...

Leighton was at Lerici in the autumn of 1878, visiting his dear old friend Giovanni Costa ("an artist in a hundred--a man in ten thousand," were Leighton's words describing him)...

Already in 1887 his friends noticed that Leighton showed at times that he was overtaxing his strength. On retiring from the Academy as an active member, Mr. George Richmond wrot...

Art-- Academic, i. 209; ii. 5 "Barbarians'" view as to, i. 41 Breadth-of-treatment school, i. 70-71 Catholicity in, ii. 264-265 Classification in, ii. 16 Detail, scrupulous care...

Browning, Robert, estimate of Leighton by, ii. 29 _note_ [6]; conversational powers of, i. 146 _and note_ [27], 149; lines by, on the Heracles picture, ii. 190; Leighton's estim...

Impartiality, i. 5 Industry and strenuousness, ii. 4, 207-208, 223, 369 Insight, rapidity of, i. 24 Intellectual brilliancy, i. 4, 23, 24, 210; ii. 2, 242 Kindness, i. 269; ii....

Millais, Sir J., Leighton's estimate of, ii. 67, 68; flower painting by, i. 220; "Needless Alarms" given to, ii. 260; letter from, 230; otherwise mentioned, i. 187 _note_ [34],...

Music-- Italian, i. 167 Leighton's feeling for, i. 100, 182; ii. 6; his singing, i. 140-141, 169-170; his yearly gatherings, ii. 216-217; his speech at the Joachim celebration,...

Pictures by Leighton-- "And the Sea gave up ...," ii. 193 "Antique Juggling Girl, The," ii. 194-195, 205 _note_ [53] "Ariadne abandoned by Theseus," ii. 370 "Atalanta," ii. 262-...

"Honeymoon, The," ii. 114, 123 Improvement in, by keeping, ii. 258 _note_ [70] "In a Moorish Garden," ii. 194, 205 _note_ [53] "Industrial Arts of Peace, The," ii. 193-194, 202...

Royal Academy-- Attacks on, ii. 8 Chantry Bequest, terms of, ii. 251-253 Codification Committee, ii. 254-255 Constitution of, ii. 248-251 _note_ [67] Exhibitions of-- Burlington...

of Leighton, i. 212; ii. 373; on "A Lemon Tree," ii. 41; on the Lyndhurst fresco, ii. 112; letters from, ii. 42, 120-121; otherwise mentioned, i. 201 _note_ [42], 220, 234, 245,...

289; estimates of, i. 126-128; portrait of, i. 172, 184, 232; intimates of, i. 183; personal appearance of, i. 183; Mrs. Ritchie's account of, i. 194 _note_ [36]; extract from e...

with Leighton (1856), i. 281-282; water-colour by, i. 291 _note_ [69]; portrait of (_Der Winter_), ii. 303-304; estimate of, i. 40-42; death of, ii. 303; letters to, i. 22 _note...

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