Sir Frederick Leighton (sToa - Luvah)

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

In 1860, he moved to London, 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.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Leighton,_1st_Baron_Leighton

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[HazenCure23]

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[ArsQuimerica]

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[meesterschilders]

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[pareidolian]

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[info2it]

continued.... I really enjoyed your video..both the music and the pictures you selected were capturing..

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[info2it]

Hi Maya, one thing I noticed immediately on most of his paintings was a clear depiction of movement arms in motion, bodies in motion, even those that look to be sleeping are dreaming.. nothing is stationary and if it appears to be so there is the potential energy  felt or the movement project on to something else in the picture.. They are all in route to somewhere or to do something.... What is the next move?