Art Collection: Frederic Leighton

Memories

Lachrymae

Kittens

Icarus and Daedalus

Flaming June

Eucharis A Girl with a Basket of Fruit Frederick Leighton

Cymon and Iphigenia

Bacchante

Amarilla

Idyll (detail)

The Garden of the Hesperides

The Fisherman and the Syren

Solitude

Portrait of Mrs. Augusta Frederica Annie Magniac

Phoebe

Perseus and Andromeda

Orpheus and Eurydice

Odalisque

The Return of Persephone

The Music Lesson

The Bath of Psyche

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton PRA (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton, Bt, between 1886 and 1896, was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical andclassical subject matter. Leighton was bearer of the shortest-lived peerage in history; after only one day his hereditary peerage ended with his death.