3-082-688 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Our Leading Academicians, painted by themselves: Sir Frederick Leighton, Bart., P.R.A., 1895. 'Sir Frederick Leighton was born at Scarborough, 1830; studied at Rome and afterwards at Berlin and Florence. His first picture exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1855, was "Cimabue's Madonna Carried through the Streets of Florence." He has chiefly chosen his subjects from sculpture and mythology. He is also a distinguished sculptor, his "Athlete Struggling with a Python" (1877) having been purchased under the Chantrey Bequest. A.R. A., 1865; R.A., 1869; P.R.A., 1878'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.