Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton  (1830–1896)
	Description	English-British painter, sculptor, politician and drawer
	Date of birth/death	3 December 1830	25 January 1896
	Location of birth/death	Scarborough	London
	Work period	circa 1855-1896
	Work location	London; City of Brussels; Paris; Frankfurt; Rome; Algiers; Constantinople; Aswan; Damascus
	Authority file	: Q160252 VIAF: 18031604 ISNI: 0000000083396135 ULAN: 500030022 LCCN: n80079496 NLA: 35556809 Open Library: OL2491122A Oxford Dict.: 16399 GND: 119423863 SELIBR: 194399 SUDOC: 034919082 BNF: 125620094 NDL: 00514557 BIBSYS: 90574505 NKC: jx20100810005 BNE: XX1438925 NLP: a0000001961967 RKD: 49153 J9U: 987007264471705171 Koninklijke: 070939578 WorldCat

creator QS:P170,Q160252

Portraits of Frederic Leighton

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  Caricature in Vanity Fair
  1872
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  Alphonse Legros, 1878
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  Self-portrait

  
  1880
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  George Frederic Watts, 1881
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  Autograph

Paintings

Main gallery: Paintings by Frederic Leighton.

Ancient Greece and Rome

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  Daphnephoria

  
  1853-1855
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  Greek Girls Picking up Pebbles by the Sea

  label QS:Len,"Greek Girls Picking up Pebbles by the Sea"

  
  1871
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  Weaving the Wreath

  
  1872
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  Winding the skein

  
  1878
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  The Vestal

  
  circa 1880

  date QS:P,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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  Wedded

  
  circa 1881-1882
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  Greek Girls Playing Ball

  
  1889
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  Solitude

  label QS:Len,"Solitude"

  label QS:Lpl,"Samotność"

  
  circa 1890

  date QS:P,+1890-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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  Twixt hope and fear

  
  1895

Bible

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  David: "Oh, that I had wings like a Dove! For then would I fly away, and be at rest." Psalm 55:6

  
  1865
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  Elijah in the Wilderness

  
  1877-1878
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  And the Sea Gave Up the Dead Which Were in It

  
  1892
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  Moses views the Promised Land

  label QS:Len,"Moses views the Promised Land"

  label QS:Lpl,"Mojżesz oglądający Ziemię Obiecaną"

Genre

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  A Boy Defending a Baby from an Eagle

  
  1850-1852
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  Garden of an Inn, Capri

  
  1859
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  Golden Hours

  label QS:Len,"Golden Hours"

  
  1864
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  The Painter's Honeymoon

  
  1864
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  Old Damascus, Jew's Quarter

  label QS:Len,"Old Damascus, Jew's Quarter"

  label QS:Lpl,"Stary Damaszek, dzielnica żydowska"

  
  1874
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  The music lesson

  
  1877
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  At a Reading Desk

  
  1877

Girls

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  Pavonia

  
  1858-1859
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  Portrait of a Roman Lady (La Nanna)

  
  1859
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  After Vespers

  
  1871
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  Teresina

  label QS:Len,"Teresina"

  
  1874
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  Amarilla

  
  1879
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  Biondina

  
  1879
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  Light of the Harem

  label QS:Len,"Light of the Harem"

  label QS:Lpl,"Światło Haremu"

  
  circa 1880

  date QS:P,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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  Memories

  label QS:Len,"Memories"

  label QS:Lpl,"Pamięć"

  
  1883
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  Gulnihal

  
  1886
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  Flaming June

  
  circa 1895

  date QS:P,+1895-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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  A girl

  label QS:Len,"A girl"

  label QS:Lpl,"Dziewczyna"

  
  Unknown date

  Unknown date
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  Sea Echoes

  label QS:Len,"Sea Echoes"

  
  Unknown date

  Unknown date

Medieval

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  Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna

  
  1853-1855
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  The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets

  label QS:Len,"The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets"

  label QS:Lpl,"Pojednanie Montecchich i Capuletich"

  
  1854
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  The feigned death of Juliet

  
  1856-1858
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  The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet

  label QS:Len,"The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet"

  label QS:Lpl,"Pojednanie Montecchich i Capuletich nad zwłokami Romea i Julii"

  
  1850s
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  A Condottiere

  
  circa 1872

  date QS:P,+1872-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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  Desdemona

  
  circa 1888

  date QS:P,+1888-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902

Myths

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  The Fisherman and the Syren

  
  circa 1856–1858
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  Orpheus and Eurydice

  
  1864
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  Acme and Septimius

  
  circa 1868
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  Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon

  
  1869
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  Nausicaa

  
  circa 1879

  date QS:P,+1879-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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  The Bath of Psyche

  
  1879
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  Crenaia, the Nymph of the Dargle

  
  1880
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  Cymon and Iphigenia

  
  1884
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  Captive Andromache

  
  1886-1888
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  Perseus and Andromeda

  
  1891
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  The Return of Persephone

  
  1891
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  The Garden of the Hesperides

  
  circa 1892

  date QS:P,+1892-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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  Perseus, on Pegasus, Hastening to the Rescue of Andromeda

  
  1896
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  Erato

  
  Unknown date

  Unknown date
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  Hit

  label QS:Len,"Hit"

  label QS:Lpl,"Trafienie"

  
  Unknown date

  Unknown date
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  Venus Disrobing for the Bath

  
  Unknown date

  Unknown date

Portraits

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  Portrait of May Sartoris

  
  1860
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  Mrs. James Guthrie

  
  circa 1865

  date QS:P,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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  Lady Adelaide Chetwynd-Talbot

  
  1879
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  Mary Sartoris

  
  1870s
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  Alexandra Orr

  
  1896
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  Phoebe

  label QS:Lpl,"Febe"

  
  Unknown date

  Unknown date

Sculpture

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  Ahlete wrestling with a python

  label QS:Len,"Ahlete wrestling with a python"

  label QS:Lpl,"Atleta walczący z pytonem"
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  Athlete struggling with a Python

  label QS:Len,"Athlete struggling with a Python"
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  The Sluggard

  label QS:Len,"The Sluggard"

  label QS:Lpl,"Próżniak"