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{{Short description|English painter and sculptor (1830–1896)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name          = The Lord Leighton
| honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|PRA}}
| image         = 1880 Frederic Leighton - Self portrait.jpg
| caption       = Frederic Leighton, ''Self-portrait'', 1880
| birth_name    = Frederic Leighton
| birth_date    = {{birth date|df=yes|1830|12|3}}
| birth_place   = [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]], North Riding of Yorkshire, England
| death_date    = {{death date and age|df=yes|1896|1|25|1830|12|3}}
| death_place   = [[Kensington]], London, England
| movement      = [[Academic art|Academicism]], [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood|Pre-Raphaelite]] and British [[Aestheticism]]
| awards        = {{ubl|[[Prix de Rome]] | ''[[Légion d'honneur]]''}}
| field         = Painting and sculpture
| training      = {{ubl|[[Eduard von Steinle]] | [[Giovanni Costa (painter, born 1826)|Giovanni Costa]]}}
| works         = ''[[Flaming June]]''
| module        = {{Infobox person|embed=yes
| signature     = Frederic Leighton Signature.jpg
| signature_alt = Sir Frederic's signature
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'''Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|PRA}} (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as '''Sir Frederic Leighton''' between 1878 and 1896, was a British [[Victorian painter]], draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, [[biblical]], and [[classical antiquity|classical]] subject matter in an [[Academic art|academic style]]. His paintings were enormously popular and expensive, during his lifetime, but fell out of critical favour for many decades in the early 20th century.{{Citation needed|reason=There is no source in this article for his decline in critical favour and no other references to it in this article|date=July 2021}}

Leighton was the bearer of the shortest-lived [[peerage]] in history; after only one day, his hereditary peerage became extinct upon his death.<ref>{{cite web |title=Peerage Records |author=Leigh Rayment |website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |date=1 September 2015 |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/reppeers/peerrecords.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323174138/http://www.leighrayment.com/reppeers/peerrecords.htm |archive-date=23 March 2016 |url-status=usurped }}</ref>

==Biography==
[[Image:Flaming June, by Frederic Lord Leighton (1830-1896).jpg|left|thumb|''[[Flaming June]]'' (1895; [[Museo de Arte de Ponce]])|225x225px]]
[[File:Lord Leighton, Frederic, After Vespers, 1871.jpg|thumb|''After Vespers'' (1871; [[Princeton University Art Museum]])|368x368px]]

Leighton was born in [[Scarborough, England|Scarborough]] to Augusta Susan and Dr. Frederic Septimus Leighton (1799–1892), a medical doctor. Leighton's grandfather, Sir James Boniface Leighton (1769–1843), had been the primary physician to two Russian tsars{{--}}[[Alexander I of Russia|Alexander I]] and [[Nicholas I of Russia|Nicholas I]]{{--}}and their families, and amassed a fortune while in their service.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.artrenewal.org/Article/Title/biography-of-lord-frederick-leighton|title=Biography of Lord Frederick Leighton|publisher=ARC| access-date=4 October 2022}}</ref> Leighton's career was always cushioned by this family wealth, with his father paying him an allowance throughout his life.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/museums/frederic-leighton|title=Frederic Leighton|publisher=RBKC| access-date=4 October 2022}}</ref> He had two sisters; one of them, [[Alexandra Orr|Alexandra]], was [[Robert Browning]]'s biographer.<ref>{{cite ODNB| url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/35332|title=Orr [née Leighton], Alexandra [known as Mrs Sutherland Orr]|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35332 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |date=23 September 2004}}</ref> He was educated at [[University College School]], London. He then received his artistic training on the European continent, first from [[Eduard von Steinle]] and then from [[Giovanni Costa (painter, born 1826)|Giovanni Costa]]. At age 17, in the summer of 1847, he met the philosopher [[Arthur Schopenhauer]] in Frankfurt and drew his portrait, in graphite and gouache on paper—the only known full-length study of Schopenhauer done from life.<ref>Crowther, Paul, and Miruna Cuzman. "A Rediscovered Contemporary Full-Length Sketch-Portrait of Schopenhauer by Frederic, Lord Leighton." Schopenhauer Jahrbuch, 92 Band, Konigshausen und Neumann, 2011: 301–306.</ref> When he was 24 he was in [[Florence]]; he studied at the [[Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze|Accademia di Belle Arti]], and painted the procession of the [[Cimabue]] Madonna through the Borgo Allegri. From 1855 to 1859 he lived in Paris, where he met [[Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres|Ingres]], [[Eugène Delacroix|Delacroix]], [[Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot|Corot]], and [[Jean-François Millet|Millet]].

Travel was an important part of Leighton's life from childhood.  By his late teens, he was living with his family in Frankfurt, Germany and had already visited many of Europe's major cities, including Florence and Rome, places which he would return to on a great many occasions over the next decades. By his late twenties, extended periods had been spent living in Rome and then Paris and Leighton had made his first trip outside Europe, travelling to north Africa in 1857.  Once settled in London, he continued to make extensive trips every year until shortly before his death. The countries that Leighton visited on at least one occasion include Austria, Algeria, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, The Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, and Turkey.

In 1860, he moved to London, where he associated with the [[Pre-Raphaelite]]s. 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]]. American art critic [[Earl Shinn]] claimed at the time that "Except Leighton, there is scarce any one capable of putting up a correct frescoed figure in the archway of the Kensington Museum."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shinn|first1=Earl|title=The World's Art: From the International Exhibition|date=1880|publisher=Lovering|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S6tBAAAAYAAJ}}</ref> His paintings represented Britain at the great [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|1900 Paris Exhibition]].  

He was the first President of the Committee commissioning the [[Survey of London]] which documented the capital's principal buildings and public art.<ref>{{cite web |title=Members of the Survey Committee Pages 4-7 Survey of London Monograph 12 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/bk12/pp4-7 |website=British History Online |publisher=Guild & School of Handicraft, London, 1926 |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>

Leighton remained a bachelor; rumours of him having an illegitimate child with one of his models, in addition to the supposition that Leighton may have been homosexual, continue to be debated.<ref name="ReferenceA">Emanuel Cooper, ''The Sexual Perspective: Homosexuality and Art in the Last 100 Years in the West'', 2005</ref> He certainly enjoyed an intense and romantically tinged relationship with the poet [[Henry William Greville]] whom he met in Florence in 1856.<ref>''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' vol 33</ref> The older man showered Leighton in letters, but the romantic affection seems not to have been reciprocated. Enquiry is further hindered by Leighton leaving no diaries, and his letters lack reference to his personal circumstances. No definite primary evidence has yet come to light that effectively dispels the secrecy that Leighton built up around himself, although it is clear that he did court a circle of younger men around his artistic studio.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

Leighton was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] at [[Windsor Castle]] in 1878,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=24651 |date=29 November 1878 |page=6695}}</ref> and was created a [[baronet]] eight years later.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=25551 |date=22 January 1886 |page=328 }}</ref> He was the first painter to be given a [[peerage]], in the [[1896 New Year Honours]]. The patent creating him Baron Leighton of [[Church Stretton|Stretton]], in the County of Shropshire, was issued on 24 January 1896;<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26705 |date=31 January 1896 |page=587 }}</ref> Leighton died the next day of [[angina pectoris]]. On his death his [[hereditary peerage]] was extinguished after existing for only a day; this is a record in the [[Peerages in the United Kingdom|peerage]].
[[Image:Frederic Leighton - Cimabue's Madonna Carried in Procession - Google Art Project 2.jpg|thumb|''[[Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna]] Is Carried in Procession Through the Streets of Florence'', 1853–1855|237x237px]]
[[Image:1876 Frederic Leighton - Daphnephoria.jpg|thumb|''[[Daphnephoria]]'', oil on canvas painting, 1874–1876, [[Lady Lever Art Gallery]]|237x237px]]

His house in [[Holland Park]], London has been turned into a museum, the [[Leighton House Museum]].<ref>{{cite news| last=Brooks | first=Richard | title=Frederic Leighton's only known painting of moon over water to go on show after being lost for a century |newspaper=The Observer| date=7 September 2024 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/sep/07/frederic-leightons-only-known-painting-of-moon-over-water-to-go-on-show-after-being-lost-for-a-century}}</ref> It contains many of his drawings and paintings, as well as some of his former art collection, including works by [[Old Masters]] and his contemporaries, such as a painting dedicated to Leighton by [[Sir John Everett Millais]]. The house also houses many of Leighton's inspirations, including his collection of [[Iznik pottery|Iznik tiles]]. Its centrepiece is the magnificent Arab Hall, which is featured in issue ten of ''[[Cornucopia (magazine)|Cornucopia]]''.<ref>[http://www.cornucopia.net/highlights10full.html ''Cornucopia'' 10, Ingres and Lady Mary Montagu, Leighton House, yurts, the Lycians plus elegant eggplant]. Cornucopia.net. Retrieved on 20 February 2011.</ref>
A [[blue plaque]] commemorates Leighton at Leighton House Museum.<ref name='EngHet'>{{cite web| url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/discover/blue-plaques/search/leighton-frederick-lord-leighton-1830-1896|title=LEIGHTON, FREDERICK, LORD LEIGHTON (1830–1896)|publisher=English Heritage| access-date=1 July 2012}}</ref>

==Artists Rifles==
[[File:Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton by George Frederic Watts.jpg|thumb|''Sir Frederic Leighton'' by [[George Frederic Watts]] (1881)|312x312px]]
[[File:Sir Frederick Leighton.jpg|thumb|Sir Frederic Leighton, later in his career.|348x348px]]
[[File:Frederic Leighton Vanity Fair 29 June 1872.jpg|thumb|''"''A sacrifice to the Graces". Caricature by [[James Tissot|Tissot]] published in ''[[Vanity Fair (British magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' in 1872]]

Leighton was an enthusiastic volunteer soldier, enrolling with the first group to join the 38th Middlesex (Artists') Rifle Volunteer Corps (later to be known as the [[Artists Rifles]]) on 5 October 1860.

His qualities of leadership were immediately identified, and he was promoted to command a Company within a few months. On 6 January 1869 [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] Leighton was elected to command the Artists Rifles by a general meeting of the corps. In the same year he was promoted to major and in 1875 to [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]]. Leighton resigned as [[commanding officer]] in 1883. The painter [[James Abbott McNeill Whistler|James Whistler]] famously described the then Sir Frederic Leighton, the commanding officer of the Artists Rifles, as the: "Colonel of the Royal Academy and the President of the Artists Rifles – aye, and he paints a little!" At his funeral, on 3 February 1896, his coffin was carried into [[St Paul's Cathedral]],<ref>"Memorials of St Paul's Cathedral" [[William Sinclair (Archdeacon of London)|Sinclair, W.]] p. 469: London; Chapman & Hall, Ltd; 1909.</ref> past a [[guard of honour]] formed by the Artists Rifles.<ref>Barry Gregory. ''A History of The Artists Rifles 1859–1947''. Pen & Sword. 2006.</ref>

==Honours ==
* 1864: Associate of the [[Royal Academy]]
* 1868: Royal Academy [[Academician]]
* 1878: President of the Royal Academy
* 1878: [[Légion d'honneur]] Officer
* 1878: [[Knight Bachelor]]
* 1886: Created a baronet in the [[Baronetage of the United Kingdom]]
* 1889: Associate member of the [[Institut de France|Institute of France]]
* 1896: Created a baron in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]]

==Selected works==
* ''Death of Brunelleschi'' (1852), oil on canvas
* ''[[The Fisherman and the Syren]]'', {{c.|1856–58}} ({{convert|66.3|x|48.7|cm|abbr=on}})
* ''[[Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna]] Is Carried in Procession Through the Streets of Florence'' (1853–55),<ref>[https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=L275 Frederic, Lord Leighton | Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna | L275 | The National Gallery, London]. Nationalgallery.org.uk. Retrieved on 20 February 2011.</ref> oil on canvas.
* ''The Discovery of Juliet Apparently Lifeless'' ({{Circa|1858}})<ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=8581&searchid=6933&tabview=image Tate Collection | Study for 'The Discovery of Juliet Apparently Lifeless']. Tate.org.uk. Retrieved on 20 February 2011.</ref>
* ''The Villa Malta, Rome'' (1860s),<ref>[https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=L851 Frederic, Lord Leighton | The Villa Malta, Rome | L851 | The National Gallery, London]. Nationalgallery.org.uk. Retrieved on 20 February 2011.</ref> oil on canvas
* ''[[The Painter's Honeymoon]]'', {{c.|1864}} ({{convert|83.8|x|77.5|cm|abbr=on}})
* ''Mother and Child'', {{c.|1865}} ({{convert|48.2|x|82|cm|abbr=on}})
* ''[[Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore]]'' (1868),<ref>[http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_e.jsp?mkey=10042 Artwork Page: Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040828195038/http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_e.jsp?mkey=10042 |date=28 August 2004 }}. Cybermuse.gallery.ca. Retrieved on 20 February 2011.</ref> oil on canvas ({{convert|57.2|x|102.2|cm|abbr=on}}), [[National Gallery of Canada]], Ottawa.
* ''Daedalus and Icarus'', {{c.|1869}} ({{convert|138.2|x|106.5|cm|abbr=on}})
* ''Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestis'' (1869–71) ({{convert|132.4|x|265.4|cm|abbr=on}})
* ''After Vespers'', 1871 ({{convert|111.5|x|71.5|cm|abbr=on}}), [[Princeton University Art Museum]]
* ''Greek Girls Picking up Pebbles by the Sea'', 1871 ({{convert|84|x|129.5|cm|abbr=on}})
* ''Teresina '' ({{c.|1874}}) [[Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu]], [[Christchurch]], New Zealand
* ''Music Lesson'', {{c.|1877}} ({{convert|92.8|x|118.1|cm|abbr=on}})
* ''[[An Athlete Wrestling with a Python]]'' (1877),<ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=8579&searchid=6933&tabview=image Tate Collection | ''An Athlete Wrestling with a Python'' by Frederic, Lord Leighton]. Tate.org.uk. Retrieved on 20 February 2011.</ref> bronze sculpture
* ''Nausicaa'', {{c.|1878}} ({{convert|145|x|67|cm|abbr=on}})
* ''Winding the Skein'', {{c.|1878}} ({{convert|100.3|x|161.3|cm|abbr=on}})
* ''Light of the Harem'', {{c.|1880}} ({{convert|152.4|x|83.8|cm|abbr=on}})
* ''Idyll'', {{c.|1880–81}}
* ''Wedded'', ({{c.|1881–1882}}) ({{convert|145.4|x|81|cm|abbr=on}})
* ''[[Cymon and Iphigenia (painting)|Cymon and Iphigenia]]'' (1884) [[Art Gallery of New South Wales]]
* ''[[Captive Andromache]]'', {{c.|1888}} ({{convert|197|x|406.5|cm|abbr=on}})
* ''[[The Bath of Psyche]]'' ({{c.|1889–90}}) ({{convert|189.2|x|62.2|cm|abbr=on}}) [[Tate Gallery]]
* ''The Garden of the Hesperides'', {{c.|1892}} ({{convert|169|x|169|cm|abbr=on}}), [[Lady Lever Art Gallery]]
* ''[[Flaming June]]'' (1895), oil on canvas, [[Museo de Arte de Ponce|Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico]] ({{convert|120.6|x|120.6|cm|abbr=on}})
* ''The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins (Fresco)''<ref>[http://www.newforestparishes.com/page8/page2/files/page2_1.jpg Newforestparishes.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703215310/http://www.newforestparishes.com/page8/page2/files/page2_1.jpg |date=3 July 2007 }}</ref>
* ''The armlet''
* ''Phoebe'' ({{convert|55.88|x|60.96|cm|abbr=on}})
* ''A Bather''
* [[The Leighton Frescoes]], ''The Arts of Industry as Applied to War'' and ''The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace''
* ''Phoenicians Trading with the Early Britons on the Coast of Cornwall'', 1895. Mural at [[Royal Exchange, London|the Royal Exchange, London]]
* ''The Return of Persephone'', 1891, oil on canvas, [[Leeds Art Gallery]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.leedsartgallery.co.uk/gallery/listings/l0033.php |title=Leeds Art Gallery, listings |access-date=28 September 2016 |archive-date=30 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130085849/http://www.leedsartgallery.co.uk/gallery/listings/l0033.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Gallery ==

<gallery class=center mode=nolines heights="220" widths="220">
File:Lord Frederick Leighton FLL006.jpg|''[[Icarus]] and [[Daedalus]]'', {{c.|1869}}
File:Frederic Leighton - The Garden of the Hesperides.jpg|''The Garden of the [[Hesperides]]'', oil on canvas painting, 1892, [[Lady Lever Art Gallery]]
File:Frederic Lord Leighton-The Sluggard-Victoria and Albert Museum.jpg|''The Sluggard'', 1885
File:An athlete wrestling with a python, white marble sculpture by Frederic, Lord Leighton, 1888-1891, private collection.jpg|''[[Athlete wrestling with a Python]]'', white marble sculpture, 1888–1891 (Private collection: on loan to the [[Art Gallery of New South Wales]])
File:Frederic Leighton - Last Watch of Hero.jpg|''The Last Watch of [[Hero and Leander|Hero]]'', 1880
File:Frederic, Lord Leighton - Perseus and Andromeda - Google Art Project.jpg|[[Perseus and Andromeda (Leighton)|''Perseus and Andromeda'']], 1891, [[Walker Art Gallery]], Liverpool.
File:Leighton Moses views the Promised Land.jpg|''[[Moses]] views the Promised Land''
File:Leighton The Painter-s Honeymoon 1864.jpg|''[[The Painter's Honeymoon]]'', 1864
File:Frederick Leighton - Memories.jpg|''Memories'', 1883
File:1890s Frederick Leighton - Bath of Psyche.jpg|''The Bath of Psyche'', 1879
</gallery>

<gallery class=center mode=nolines heights="220" widths="220">
File:Leighton Captive Andromache.jpg|''Captive [[Andromache]]'', oil on canvas painting, 1886–1888, [[Manchester City Art Gallery]]
File:Lord Frederic Leighton - Cymon and Iphigenia - Google Art Project.jpg|''[[Cymon and Iphigenia (Leighton painting)|Cymon and Iphigenia]]'', oil on canvas painting, 1884, [[Art Gallery of New South Wales]]
File:Frederic Leighton - Portrait of May Sartoris - Google Art Project.jpg|''Portrait of May Sartoris''
File:Frederick Leighton - Biondina.jpg|''Biondina'', 1879
File:Frederic Leighton - The Return of Persephone (1891).jpg|''The Return of Persephone'', 1891
File:Frederic Leighton Kittens.jpg|''Kittens'', 1883
File:Leighton, Frederick - A Girl Feeding Peacocks.jpg|''A Girl Feeding Peacocks'', {{c.|1863}}
File:Frederick Leighton - Solitude.jpg|''Solitude'', {{c.|1890}}
File:Lord Frederic Leighton - Winding the skein - Google Art ProjectFXD.jpg|Winding the skein, 1878
</gallery>

==See also==
* ''[[Romola]]'' – the 1863 novel by [[George Eliot]] for which Leighton did the illustrations

== Citations ==
{{reflist}}

== General references ==
* {{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Leighton, Frederick Leighton, Baron|volume=16|pages=396–398|first=William Cosmo|last=Monkhouse|author-link=William Cosmo Monkhouse}}

==External links==
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{{external media | width = 238px | float = right | video1 = [http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/leightons-an-athlete-wrestling-with-a-python.html Leighton's ''An Athlete Wrestling with a Python''], [[Smarthistory]]
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* [http://www.frederic-leighton.org Frederic-Leighton.org]—114 works by Frederic Leighton
* [https://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=14 Advice to Young Artists by Frederick Lord Leighton]—high resolution images
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060617220548/http://www.lordfredericleighton.co.uk/ Scarborough, Birthplace of Lord Frederic Leighton]
* [https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/subsites/museums/leightonhousemuseum.aspx Leighton House Museum]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20031019204716/http://www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk/obituary/leighton.htm Obituary] from ''[[The Times]]''
* [http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=437 Leighton Gallery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927002555/http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=437 |date=27 September 2007 }} at MuseumSyndicate
* {{Art UK bio}} 
* [https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/14186 Portrait of Sir Frederick Leighton, PRA] by [[Alphonse Legros]] at [[University of Michigan Museum of Art]]

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