Frederic, Lord Leighton by Margot Brandlhuber

An exceptional rebound copy of the first and only edition of this extensive collection of Lord Frederic Leighton's drawings. A very good bright copy with no previous ownership markings in like dustwrapper. & of colour plates, 100 text illustrations. Studies in British Art 5.] Contents: The artist as artificer / Caroline Arscott - Nature transformed : Leighton, the nude and the model / Alison Smith - Drapery, sculpture and the Praxitelean ideal / Rosemary Barrow - On translating Homer : prehistory and the limits of classicism / Robyn Asleson - Aestheticising history painting / Elizabeth Pettejohn - The apotheosis of the male nude : Leighton and Michelangelo / Lene Østermark-Johansen - Leighton in Albertopolis : monumental art and objects of desire / Timm Barringer - Drawing domestic decline : Leighton's version of Romola / Mark Turner - Transparent bodies, opaque identities : personification, narrative and portraiture / Paul Barlow - Leighton and the shifting repertoires of 'masculine' artistic identity in the late Victorian period / Andrew Stephenson - From Burlington House to the Peckham Road : Leighton and art and design education / Rafael Cardoso Denis - Decoration, display, disguise : Leighton House reconsidered / Louise Campbell - Leighton and music / Michael Musgrave - Leighton : a promoter of the new painting / Anna Gruetzner Robins.

Intelligent, cultured, and of distinguished appearance (although rather austere), he was one of the chief adornments of London society.Hardcover. In spite of this success, Leighton was for several years regarded as an alien presence in the British art world, but from the mid-1860s he enjoyed a level of worldly success that was matched perhaps only by Millais, his almost exact contemporary: he became president of the Royal Academy in 1878, was made a baronet in 1886, and a few days before he died was raised to the peerage, the first (and so far only) British artist to be so honoured. It was not until 1859 that he settled in England, but he had earlier made his name with Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna is Carried in Procession through the Streets of Florence, which he painted in Rome: it was exhibited at the 1855 Royal Academy exhibition and bought by Queen Victoria (it is now on loan from the Royal Collection to the National Gallery, London).

He travelled widely in Europe as a boy and his artistic education was gained principally in Frankfurt, Rome, and Paris. English painter, draughtsman, and occasional sculptor, one of the dominant figures of late Victorian art. (Born Scarborough, 3 December 1830 died London, 25 January 1896).

Frederic, Lord Leighton by Margot Brandlhuber