Frederic, Baron Leighton of Stretton was a great admirer of Italian Renaissance painting and showed, for his time, an advanced appreciation of the early Italian painters, including Cimabue and Giotto. He drew heavily on 15th- and 16th-century sources in working on Cimabue's celebrated Madonna. Ironically, the altarpiece shown by Leighton (now in the Uffizi) is today recognised to be by Duccio, not Cimabue.
The vivid landscape oil sketches which Leighton made during much of his career, but rarely exhibited, are less well known than his large-scale figure paintings.
Frederic, Lord Leighton
1830 - 1896
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Works by Frederic, Lord Leighton
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Frederic, Lord Leighton, was a British academic artist. Over many decades, for his personal enjoyment he also produced swift oil landscape sketches on his journeys to other countries. The style and technique of these works differ from those in most of his finished oil paintings.In this work, the...
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The British academic painter Frederic, Lord Leighton, visited Italy on numerous occasions. It has been suggested that his earliest surviving oil sketches date from 1859. This would mean that this work was produced during a later visit, perhaps in the 1860s.The ruins on the Palatine Hill were a po...
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Lord Leighton depicts Cimabue’s Madonna and Child as it is taken from his house and through the streets of Florence to the Rucellai Chapel in the church of Santa Maria Novella. A group of Renaissance artists carries the painting on a trestle. Cimabue leads the way, walking hand in hand with his s...
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A warm light casts shadows upon the roof of a white-walled building dominating the lower half of the painting. The upper half is occupied by a series of taller buildings, punctuated by small windows and peppered with chimneys. A lone cypress tree rises up from a courtyard below.We are in Venice,...
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This work was made by the British artist Frederic, Lord Leighton. It may have been an exercise in free, spontaneous but structurally rigorous oil sketching in the manner of the French landscape painter, Camille Corot. Leighton had met Corot in Paris in the mid-1850s. He seems to have been strongl...
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Leighton first visited Capri in the summer of 1859 and remained on the island for several weeks. During his stay, the artist made many plein-air oil sketches, recording numerous views from various vantage points and exploring the changing effects of light at different times of the day.View in Cap...
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Works previously owned by Frederic, Lord Leighton
Possibly by Jacopo Tintoretto
The story of Jupiter and Semele is told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The god Jupiter takes the mortal woman Semele as his mistress and makes her pregnant. When Jupiter’s wife, the goddess Juno, finds out, she disguises herself and suggests to Semele that her lover may not really be Jupiter. She tells...
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