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Lord Leighton

Pre-Raphaelite, early 19th Century drawing by the British artist Lord Leighton
By Frederic Leighton
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Lord Frederick Leighton (British, 1830-1896) A Medieval Allegory pencil on paper the fragment
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19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

A Portrait of Lord Leighton. Antique oil on canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
Richard Waller 1811 - 1882 Canvas Size: 24 x 20" (60 x 50cm) Frame Size: 31" x 27" (77.5 x 67.5cm) Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1872 London painter of portraits and suggestive sub...
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1870s Victorian Portrait Paintings

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Oil

An early 19th Century drawing by the British pre-Raphaelite artist Lord Leighton
By Frederic Leighton
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Lord Frederick Leighton (British, 1830-1896) A very early study of a Medieval Minstrel pencil on
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19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Lord Frederick Leighton drawing, British pre-Raphaelite, original
By Frederic Leighton
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Lord Frederick Leighton (British, 1830-1896) Apprehending a thief pencil on paper the fragment
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19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Portrait of Ethel Gabain
By Solomon Joseph Solomon
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
portraits, Biblical subjects and mythological subjects after being influenced by Frederick Lord Leighton
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Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rehearsal, Victorian Era painting by Francis Sydney Muschamp
By Francis Sydney Muschamp
Located in Long Island City, NY
same vision as its leaders Lord Leighton and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Muschamp’s brush was motivated
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Late 19th Century Victorian Interior Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Italian Landscape - British 19thC art Impressionist oil painting female artist
By Susan Isabel Dacre
Located in London, GB
movement and a member of the Manchester arts community. She travelled with Lord Leighton and exhibited
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19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Siena Italy - 19thC British Impressionist oil painting cityscape female artist
By Susan Isabel Dacre
Located in London, GB
movement and a member of the Manchester arts community. She travelled with Lord Leighton and exhibited
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19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Late 19th Century English portrait of an English Jack Russell called Fritz
By John Emms
Located in Woodbury, CT
and for some time he worked as Frederick, Lord Leighton’s studio assistant. Emms helped Leighton to
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1870s Victorian Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Oil Painting King Arthur's Queen Guinevere Camelot
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Olympian School’ of late 19th century painters of ancient Pompeian subjects such Lord Leighton and Sir
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Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings

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Oil

British Sad Clown Boy Oil Painting on Canvas Barry Leighton Jones Circus Scene
By Barry Leighton-Jones
Located in Surfside, FL
Frame: 27 X 21 Image: 23.5 X 17.5 Barry Leighton-Jones was born in London, England in 1932 and is
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20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Diana Nemorensis - 19th Century NeoClassical Oil Painting Ancient Roman Goddess
By Max Nonnenbruch
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
painters Lord Leighton and Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema; his figure painting in particular being every bit the
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Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Charity - Royal Academy exhib. 19thC art Pre-Raphaelite portrait oil painting
By Rudolf Lehmann
Located in London, GB
extended social circle of the two couples included Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Lord
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19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Mrs William Tisdall Elsie Gardiner - British Edwardian oil painting
Located in London, GB
beautiful Pre-Raphaelite tone to it. One can see the influences of Lord Leighton and George Frederick Watts
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Early 1900s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Awakening - Important Royal Academy Oil Painting of Neoclassical Nudes Nymphs
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
subjects, and he would go on to rival Lord Leighton and John William Waterhouse as one of England’s
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Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Nude Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Lillian Gardiner Mrs Jack Allen British Edwardian art oil painting
Located in London, GB
earlier preference had been to paint subject pictures in the tradition of Lord Leighton and George
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1910s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a Girl Playing Piano - British 19th century musical art oil painting
By Ralph Peacock
Located in London, GB
artists of the period such as Sir Frank Dicksee, Lord Leighton, Holman Hunt, Burne-Jones and Herbert
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1890s Victorian Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of an Edwardian Lady - British 1900 art female portrait oil painting
By Ralph Peacock
Located in London, GB
familiar with all the famous contemporary artists of the period such as Sir Frank Dicksee, Lord Leighton
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Early 1900s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

My Lady of the Rose Portrait of Hilda, the Artist's Wife - British oil painting
Located in London, GB
influence of Lord Frederick Leighton and the Italian Renaissance can easily be seen. Entitled My Lady of the
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1910s Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Fat Lady Sings Giclee Painting Print on Canvas Rowdy Tavern Bar Scene
By Barry Leighton-Jones
Located in Surfside, FL
Victorian artist and President of the Royal Academy, Lord Frederic Leighton. He began his artistic career at
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20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Canvas, Giclée

Childhood of Dante - British Victorian Pre-Raphaelite figurative oil painting
Located in London, GB
historical female artist and suffragette Jessie MacGregor. She was tutored by Lord Frederick Leighton at the
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1890s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Paintings

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Oil

A Pompeian Lady
By John William Godward
Located in New Orleans, LA
the influence of British Neoclassical Revivalists Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Lord Frederic Leighton and
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Early 20th Century Academic Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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XLII. Ram's Head Urn
By Sir William Hamilton
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Victorian Greek revival of Frederic Lord Leighton who drew upon the engravings for props in a number of his
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

XIV. Etruscan Urn
By Sir William Hamilton
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Victorian Greek revival of Frederic Lord Leighton who drew upon the engravings for props in a number of his
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18th Century and Earlier Academic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Pre-Raphaelite Portrait of Woman in Red by Perugini, titled "A Sideways Glance"
Located in Washington, DC
the tutelage of one of the most well-known painters of the day, Lord Frederic Leighton, who painted
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Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Frederic Lord Leighton (After), The Last Watch Of Hero, Gravure
By Frederic Leighton
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This enchanting Victorian photogravure is after a painting by Frederic Lord Leighton (1830-1896
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19th Century English School Figurative Prints

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Paper, Photogravure

Lord Frederic Leighton 'Odalisque' 1997- Offset Lithograph
By Frederic Leighton
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 39.5 x 21.75 inches ( 100.33 x 55.245 cm ) Image Size: 34.75 x 17.25 inches ( 88.265 x 43.815 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

The Changer of Hearts - 19th Century Oil Painting Portrait of Roman Beauty
By Philip Hermogenes Calderon R.A.
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
classical themes of the Olympians Lord Leighton (1830-1896) and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912
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1880s Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Oranges - 19th Century Neoclassical Portrait Oil Painting of Young Roman Girl
By Arthur Hill
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
Olympian masters of British neoclassical painting Lord Leighton and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, but unlike
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Late 19th Century Realist Nude Paintings

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Oil

Mary Isabella Bloxum
By Thomas Lawrence
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Lord Leighton, imagine "the harem as a place of almost English domesticity, ... [where]... women's
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1830s Victorian Portrait Prints

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Engraving, Watercolor

Portrait of a Blonde, circa 1965
By Barry Leighton-Jones
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
President of the Royal Academy, Lord Frederic Leighton. He began his artistic career at the age of five by
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Runaway Child, Expressionist Oil Painting
By Barry Leighton-Jones
Located in Surfside, FL
Victorian artist and President of the Royal Academy, Lord Frederic Leighton. He began his artistic career at
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Fat Lady Sings Giclee Painting Print on Canvas Rowdy Tavern Bar Scene
By Barry Leighton-Jones
Located in Surfside, FL
Victorian artist and President of the Royal Academy, Lord Frederic Leighton. He began his artistic career at
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20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Canvas, Giclée

Band Of Street Urchins (Charles Dickens) Large Oil Painting
By Barry Leighton-Jones
Located in Surfside, FL
36" x 3/4" Dimensions w/Frame: 48 3/4" x 37" Barry Leighton-Jones was born in London, England in
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20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Young Girl
By George Frederic Watts
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
on canvas); Portrait of Frederick, Lord Leighton (1890, oil on canvas); Portrait of Carlo, Baron
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Myrhinna
By John William Godward
Located in New Orleans, LA
influence of British Neoclassical Revivalists Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Lord Frederic Leighton, and Sir
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Early 20th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cynthia
By John William Godward
Located in New Orleans, LA
. Having fallen under the influence of British Neoclassical Revivalists Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Lord
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Early 20th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cytheris by John Wiliam Godward
By John William Godward
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Lord Frederic Leighton, and Sir Edward John Poynter, Godward quickly adopted, if not
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

At The Window by John William Godward
By John William Godward
Located in New Orleans, LA
influence of British Neoclassical Revivalists Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Lord Frederic Leighton, and Sir
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20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Signal
By John William Godward
Located in New Orleans, LA
British Neoclassical Revivalists Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Lord Frederic Leighton, and Sir Edward John
After Lord Leighton
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
After Lord Frederick Leighton Keywords: Nude, model, pose, posing, girl, woman, naked, ancient
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

After Lord Leighton
After Lord Leighton
H 27.37 in W 14.73 in D 1.26 in
A young Pope
By Gustav Pope
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Rossetti and Frederic, Lord Leighton. English literary sources, classical mythology, portraiture, landscape
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19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Interior - Children Playing - British Victorian children's portrait oil painting
By Susan Isabel Dacre
Located in London, GB
and 1880. Around 1872, Lord Leighton dictated notes and observations on his methods of painting and
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19th Century Realist Interior Paintings

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Oil

The Odalisque
By Frederic Leighton
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
An original hand colored steel plate engraving after English artist Frederic Leighton R.A. (1830
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Steel

Late 19th Century English portrait of an English Labrador dog head, Thunder
By John Emms
Located in Woodbury, CT
he worked as Frederick, Lord Leighton’s studio assistant. Emms helped Leighton to execute the fresco
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1870s Victorian Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Poppaea Sabina - 19th Century Neoclassical Portrait Oil Painting Roman Empress
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
romantic scenes of ancient Rome and Greece. Like ‘Olympians’ Frederick Lord Leighton, Sir Lawrence Alma
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1880s Victorian Portrait Paintings

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Oil

On the River Severn - 19th Century Victorian Landscape Oil Painting
By David Bates b.1840
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
Royal Academy himself, Lord Leighton. Bates exhibited many works at the Royal Academy, Grosvenor
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Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Large Vibrant Clown with Maidens Expressionist Oil Painting Barry Leighton Jones
By Barry Leighton-Jones
Located in Surfside, FL
artist and President of the Royal Academy, Lord Frederic Leighton. He began his artistic career at the
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Lord of the Isles
By Margaret Collyer
Located in London, GB
, Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830–1896), who promised to bring the matter before the Council (8). After
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Early 1900s Realist Animal Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Carnations - Large 19th Century Oil Painting Portrait
By Philip Hermogenes Calderon R.A.
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
classical themes of the Olympians Lord Leighton (1830-1896) and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912
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Late 19th Century English School Portrait Paintings

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Oil

A Village in Mid-Wales. Original Landscape Painting. Royal Worcester Apprentice.
By David Bates b.1840
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
principal London galleries from 1868, including 26 paintings at the Royal Academy between 1863-1893. Lord
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Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mr. Calmeady's Children
By Thomas Lawrence
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
several of his harem scenes. These, with the rare examples by the classicist painter Lord Leighton
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Mid-19th Century Portrait Prints

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Engraving

PORTRAIT Of CAPTAIN WILLIAM ALFRED CRAGG OF THE LINCOLNSHIRE YEOMANRY
By Frederic Leighton
Located in Blackwater, GB
PORTRAIT Of CAPTAIN WILLIAM ALFRED CRAGG OF THE LINCOLNSHIRE YEOMANRY circle of Lord Frederick
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19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Charlotte Julianna Jane Howard - British Victorian art oil painting
Located in London, GB
. While in Rome Buckner gave advice to Frederick (Lord) Leighton, later PRA, when he was starting his
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1840s Victorian Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Mary - British RA exh interior portrait oil painting Japanese urns
By Ralph Peacock
Located in London, GB
, Lord Leighton, Holman Hunt, Burne-Jones and Herbert Draper. It was common practice for artists to
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1920s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Runaway Child, Expressionist Oil Painting
By Barry Leighton-Jones
Located in Surfside, FL
Victorian artist and President of the Royal Academy, Lord Frederic Leighton. He began his artistic career at
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Capturing the Magna Carta" by Ernest Normand
By Ernest Normand
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
based in London from 1885, where Ernest had his studio and received support from the circle around Lord
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Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

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