At the age of eleven, in 1841, Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, was taught painting in Rome and then studied first at the Academy of Berlin, from 1844 in Florence under Giuseppe Bezzuoli (1784 - 1855) and then under Eduard Jakob von Steinle (1810 - 1886) at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main. The Nazarenes and the painters of the Italian Renaissance had a particularly strong influence on the young Frederic Leighton, one of whom inspired Leighton to paint his first two large paintings: Giotto, Found Among the Sheep by Cimabue (1847) and Cimabue's Madonna Carried in Procession (1852 - 1855). The latter was sent by Leighton to the Royal Academy after its completion and was also his breakthrough as an artist.
Before his return to Rome in 1858 Leighton lived in Paris. During his time in Rome he made four portraits of the Italian model Anna Risi, later lover and muse of Anselm Feuerbach (1829 - 1880). In 1859 Leighton returned to London, where three of Anna Risi's portraits were exhibited at the Royal Academy: Pavonia, An Italian Lady and A Roman Lady. Although Leighton did not consider himself a member of the Pre-Raphaelites, his works were obviously influenced by the group of artists after his return to London.
Leighton rose rapidly within the Royal Academy: in 1866 he was only an associate, in 1869 a member and as early as 1878 president, a task he took extremely seriously.
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-901926).jpg "The Return of Persephone by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "The Music Lesson, 1877 by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Nausicaa by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "The Reconciliation of the Montagues and the Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Songs Without Words by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "An Athlete Strangling a Python by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Cupid and Doves by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "David: \"Oh, that I had wings like a Dove! For then would I fly away, and be at rest.\" Psalm 55:6 by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Ruined Mosque, Broussai, 1867 by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Type of Beauty, VI by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Mnemosyne, The Mother of the Muses by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Pavonia (detail) by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "David: \"Oh, that I had wings like a Dove! For then would I fly away, and be at rest.\" Psalm 55:6 by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Solitude by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Girl, Head and Shoulders by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "The Arab Hall by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Perseus and Andromeda by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "View of Sir Richard and Lady Burton")
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.jpg "Head of a Roman Model by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Perseus and Andromeda, Illustration from the Book")
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.jpg "Study of a woman")
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.jpg "The Bath of Psyche by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "The Coast of Asia Minor by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Portrait of Dorothy Dene by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Elijah in the Wilderness by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Paolo by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Kittens by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "And the Sea Gave Up the Dead Which Were in It by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "The Daphnephoria by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Rocks of the Sirens, Capri, c.1860s by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Memories, c.1883 by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "The Interior of St Mark")
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.jpg "The Bath of Psyche by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "The Death of Leander, predella panel of The Last Watch of Hero by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "The Misses Stewart Hodgson by Frederic Leighton")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-427770).jpg "Study for the Portrait of Hannah, Countess of Rosebery, c.1880 by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "The Villa Malta, Rome by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Interior of a Mosque of Mimbar of the Great Mosque at Damascus by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "The Return of Persephone by Frederic Leighton")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1127712).jpg "Head of a Girl by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Lady, Small Bust Length, Wearing a White Dress by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Nicandra by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "The Condottiere by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Dante in Exile, 1864 by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Tessa at Home. From George Eliot")
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.jpg "Cymon and Iphigenia by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "The Light of the Harem by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Antigone by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Preparing for a Festa, Florence by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "The Moorish Garden; a Dream of Granada by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Study for The Arts of Industry as Applied to War, c1870 by Frederic Leighton")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-427771).jpg "Marietta, Capri, 1859 by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Preparing for a Festa, 1851 by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Aynhoe Park by Frederic Leighton")
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_1854_(pencil_on_paper)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1127960).jpg "Portrait of May Sartoris (1845-1925) 1854 by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Knucklebones, 1867 by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Perseus and Andromeda by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "The Feigned Death of Juliet by Frederic Leighton")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1017271).jpg "Phoenician traders of the coast of Britain by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Lindos, Rhodes by Frederic Leighton")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-897159).jpg "The Return of Persephone by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Portrait of May Sartoris by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Old Damascus: Jew")
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.jpg "Self Portrait by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Distant View of Mountains in the Aegean Sea, 1867 by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Greek Girls Picking up Pebbles on the Beach. Around 1871 by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Phoebe by Frederic Leighton")
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.jpg "Rubinella by Frederic Leighton")
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