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Picture of the ArtistThis image of Alfonso Lombardi was kindly provided by Don Kurtz.
Apr 06, 2008
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Death of the Virgin1519 - 1521
Terracotta
Private collectionApr 06, 2008
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Venus in front of the Mirror1625 - 1626
Oil on canvas
32 5/8 x 27 1/8 inches (83 x 69 cm)
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
Apr 06, 2008
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Abel Mourned by his Parents1628
Oil on canvas
26 3/8 x 33 inches (67 x 84 cm)
Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, ItalyApr 06, 2008
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Apollo and Marsyas1627
Oil on canvas
22 3/4 x 18 7/8 inches (58 x 48 cm)
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy
Apr 06, 2008
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Judith and Holophernes1628
Oil on canvas
49 1/2 x 40 1/8 inches (126 x 102 cm)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, AustriaApr 06, 2008
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The Death of Cleopatra1622 - 1624
Oil on canvas
38 3/8 x 33 5/8 inches (97.5 x 85.5 cm)
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Bavaria, GermanyApr 06, 2008
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The Ecstasy of St PaulOil on canvas
31 3/8 x 22 3/4 inches (80 x 58 cm)
Staatliche Museen, Berlin, GermanyApr 06, 2008
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Picture of the ArtistThis image of Sir Peter Lely was kindly provided by Don Kurtz.
Apr 06, 2008
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Henrietta Maria of France, Queen of England1660
Oil on canvas
19 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (49 x 39 cm)
Musée Condé, Chantilly, FranceApr 06, 2008
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Two Ladies of the Lake Family1660
Oil on canvas
50 x 70 3/4 inches (127 x 180 cm)
Tate Gallery, London, England
Apr 06, 2008
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Charles I And The Duke Of York1647
Oil on canvas
48 x 56 1/2 inches (121.92 x 143.51 cm)
Private collection
Apr 06, 2008
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Portrait Of Diana, Countess Of AilesburyOil on canvas
50 x 38 1/2 inches (127 x 98 cm)
Private collection
Apr 06, 2008
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The Charity of St. Elizabeth of HungaryOil on canvas
Collection of Fred and Sherry Ross, USA
Apr 05, 2008
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Biographical InformationEdmund Blair Leighton was a painter of historical genre pictures, mainly of medieval times, but also regency. He is now one of the most popular of the painters on this web site, his pictures being amongst the most frequently reproduced as posters. Rather like Waterhouse, and Herbert Draper, Leighton the man has virtually disappeared. The reasons for the continuing popularity of the artist’s work are not difficult to understand, as they are similar to those in his lifetime, namely nostalgia for an elegant chivalrous past. Leighton was also a fastidious craftsman, producing highly- finished, beautifully painted, decorative pictures. It would appear that he left no diaries, and I have been unable to locate any mention of him in biographies, and though he exhibited at the Royal Academy for over forty years, he was never an Academician or an Associate. I set out below such information as I have been able to accumulate on the elusive Leighton.
Edmund Blair Leighton was born on the 21st September 1853, the son of the artist Charles Blair Leighton. He was educated at University College School, before becoming a student at the Royal Academy Schools. Leighton married Katherine Nash in 1885; they had a son and daughter. He exhibited annually at the RA from 1878 to 1920. Leighton was, as might be expected from his historic genre paintings a collector of old musical instruments, art, and furniture. He lived at 14 Priory Road, Bedford Park, London, and died on the 1st September 1922.
I set out below a short obituary of Leighton, taken from a magazine published early in 1923.
Obituary - The late Edmund Blair Leighton ROI 1853-1922.
The death of Mr Edward Blair Leighton, on September 1st, removed from our midst a painter who, though he did not attain to the higher flights of art, yet played a distinguished part in aiding the public mind to an appreciation of the romance attaching to antiquity, and to a realisation of the fellowship of mankind throughout the ages.
Mr Blair Leighton was born in London, on September 1st 1853, his father being that Charles Blair Leighton, portrait and subject painter, whose exhibits at the Royal Academy and other London galleries covered the period between 1843 and 1855. The son was educated at University College School, before taking a position in an office in the city, but entered the Royal Academy Schools after a course of evening study at South Kensington and Heatherley’s.
He commenced exhibiting in 1874, and succeeded, four years later, in securing the verdict of the Hanging Committee of the Royal Academy in favour of two works, entitled respectively ‘Witness My Act and Seal,’ and ‘A Flaw in the Title.’ Since then his highly wrought style was regularly represented at Burlington House until two years prior to his decease. Among the better known of his pictures, many of which were published, may be named ‘The Dying Copernicus (1880), To Arms (1888), Lay thy sweet hand in mine and trust in me ( 1891), Lady Godiva (1892), Two Strings (1893), Launched in Life (1894), The Accolade (1901), Tristram and Isolde (1907), The Dedication (1908), The Shadow (1909), ‘To the Unknown Land (1911),’ and ‘The Boyhood of Alfred The Great,’ 1913. For the past dozen years or so, Mr E Blair Leighton had been a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. He had married in 1885, Miss Katherine Nash, by whom he had, with a daughter, one son, Mr E J Blair Leighton, who has also adopted painting as a profession.
Appeal of The Work of Edmund Blair Leighton.
This short comment regarding the work of Leighton was written in 1897, by Gleeson White, a writer and journalist on art.
"The artist selects as a rule themes which offer an excuse for old-world costume, and an easily read anecdote. To place Mr E Blair Leighton's work in a class to which it makes no pretence to belong, or to contrast it with the masterpieces of the past, or even of the present, would be to do it an injustice. It is the pictorial equivalent of light literature, of belles letters, of graceful novels and vers de societe, of much that is charming of its kind, if by its very nature ephemeral."
This is a very perceptive comment about the work of Edmund Blair Leighton, which has always struck me as being like elegantly crafted light music. I think that the writer, who called Leighton's work ephemeral, would be rather surprised by its enduring appeal.
Apr 05, 2008
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More Images of the ArtistApr 05, 2008
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