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Frederick Leighton 1830-1896 is in Painters.
Frederick Leighton Biography. Around 1800. Frederick Leighton. "Miss Dene". Model Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen.
On 3rd December 1830 Frederick Leighton was born to Dr Frederic Septimus Leighton (age 31) at Scarborough, North Yorkshire [Map].
1853. Frederick Leighton (age 22). Portrait of [his sister] Alexandra Orr nee Leighton (age 24), the artist's sister.
1858. Frederick Leighton (age 27). Portrait of Augusta Frances Clayton-East (age 38).
Augusta Frances Clayton-East: Around 1820 she was born to East George Clayton-East 1st Baronet. In 1845 Henry Ainslie Hoare 5th Baronet and she were married. On 12th April 1903 Augusta Frances Clayton-East died.
Around 1860. Frederick Leighton (age 29). Portrait of Mary "May" Theodosia Sartoris (age 15), "Mrs Evans Gordon".
Around 1860. Frederick Leighton (age 29). Portrait of Henry Evans-Gordon (age 18).
Henry Evans-Gordon: he and Mary "May" Theodosia Sartoris were married. In 1842 he was born. On 19th December 1909 he died.
Around 1860. Frederick Leighton (age 29). Portrait of [his father] Dr Frederic Septimus Leighton (age 60), the artist's father.
Dr Frederic Septimus Leighton: On 18th September 1799 he was born. On 24th January 1892 he died.
Around 1860. Frederick Leighton (age 29). Portrait of Mary "May" Theodosia Sartoris (age 15), "Mrs Evans Gordon".
Around 1860. Frederick Leighton (age 29). Portrait of Mary "May" Theodosia Sartoris (age 15).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1862. Frederick Leighton (age 31). "Bianca". Model Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 3).
1875. Frederick Leighton (age 44). "Little Fatima". Model Connie Gilchrist (age 9).
1876. Frederick Leighton (age 45). "The Daphnephoria". The model for all five girls centre Connie Gilchrist (age 10).
Around 1876. Frederick Leighton (age 45). "Study: At a Reading Desk". Model Connie Gilchrist (age 10).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1877. Frederick Leighton (age 46). "The Music Lesson". Model Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen (age 4).
1877. Frederick Leighton (age 46). "The Music Lesson". Model for child Connie Gilchrist (age 11).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1879. Frederick Leighton (age 48). "Elijah in the Wilnerness".
Around 1879. Frederick Leighton (age 48). Portrait of Adelaide Chetwynd-Talbot Countess Brownlow.
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1879. Frederick Leighton (age 48). "Neruccia".
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1879. Frederick Leighton (age 48). Sketch for "Elijah in the Wilnerness".
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1880. Frederick Leighton (age 49). "Sister's Kiss". Model Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen (age 7).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1880. Frederick Leighton (age 49). "The Light of the Harem". Model Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen (age 7).
1880. Frederick Leighton (age 49). Self-Portrait.
1880. Frederick Leighton (age 49). "Crenaia, the Nymph of the Dargle". Model Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 21).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1880. Frederick Leighton (age 49). "Letty". Model Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen (age 7).
Frederick Leighton Biography. Around 1882. Frederick Leighton (age 51). "Return of Persephone". Model Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 23).
Frederick Leighton Biography. Around 1882. Frederick Leighton (age 51). "Antigone". Model Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 23).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1883. Frederick Leighton (age 52). Study For Sleeping Group For "Cymon And Iphigenia". Given by Lord Leighton to G.F. Watts, O.M., and given by the latter to the Collection in Leighton House
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1884. Frederick Leighton (age 53). Study In Colour For "Cymon And Iphigenia."
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1884. Frederick Leighton (age 53). "Cymon and Iphigenia". Models sisters Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 25) and Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen (age 11).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1884. Frederick Leighton (age 53). "Kittens". Model Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen (age 11).
1885. Frederick Leighton (age 54). Portrait of May Prinsep Baroness Tennyson (age 31).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1886. Frederick Leighton (age 55). Study For Figure In Frieze, "Music." Leighton House Collection
Frederick Leighton Biography. Around 1886. Frederick Leighton (age 55). "Clytie". Model Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 27).
In 1886 Frederick Leighton (age 55) was created 1st Baronet Leighton of Holland Park Road in St Mary Abbots in Kensington in Middlesex.
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1887. Frederick Leighton (age 56). "The Last Watch Of Hero."
Around 1888. Frederick Leighton (age 57). Portrait of Augusta Frances Hoare (age 42).
Augusta Frances Hoare: In October 1845 she was born to Henry Ainslie Hoare 5th Baronet and Augusta Frances Clayton-East. Before 23rd February 1892 William John Nettleship Angerstein and she were married. On 7th November 1922 Augusta Frances Hoare died.
Around 1888. Frederick Leighton (age 57). Portrait of Amy Augusta Jackson Lawford Baroness Coleridge.
Amy Augusta Jackson Lawford Baroness Coleridge: she was born to Henry Baring Lawford. On 13th August 1885 John Duke Coleridge 1st Baron Coleridge and she were married. She by marriage Baroness Coleridge of Ottery St Mary in Devon. On 27th May 1933 she died.
Around 1889. Frederick Leighton (age 58). "Greek Girls Playing Ball". Model left Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 30).
1889. Frederick Leighton (age 58). Portrait of [his sister] Alexandra Orr nee Leighton (age 60), the artist's sister.
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1889. Frederick Leighton (age 58). Study In Colour For "Greek Girls Playing At Ball."
Before 1890. Frederick Leighton (age 59). Portrait of Hannah Rothschild Countess of Rosebery (age 38).
Hannah Rothschild Countess of Rosebery: On 27th July 1851 she was born to Mayer Amschel Rothschild. On 20th March 1878 Archibald Philip Primrose 5th Earl Rosebery 1st Earl Midlothian and she were married at Board of Guardians Mount Street Grosvenor Square. She by marriage Countess Camden. He the son of Archibald John Primrose and Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Stanhope Duchess of Cleveland. On 19th November 1890 Hannah Rothschild Countess of Rosebery died.
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1890. Frederick Leighton (age 59). Study For "Andromeda." Leighton House Collection.
Around 1890. Frederick Leighton (age 59). "The Bath of Psyche". Model Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 31).
Psyche: Psyche is the Greek goddess of the soul. She was born a mortal woman, with beauty that rivaled Aphrodite.
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1890. Frederick Leighton (age 59). Study In Colour For "Tragic Poetess."
Frederick Leighton Biography. Around 1890. Frederick Leighton (age 59). "The Bath of Psyche". Model Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 31).
Around 1891. Frederick Leighton (age 60). "The Return of Persephone". Model Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 32).
The Royal Academy Conversazione, 1891, by George Henry Grenville Manton (age 36).
John Seymour Lucas, Dame Alice Ellen Terry (age 43), Sir William Quiller Orchardson, Rachel, Countess of Dudley (age 23), Marcus Stone, Henry Stacy Marks, Sir Henry Irving, Unidentified man, Unidentified man, Sir John Everett Millais (age 61), William Charles Thomas Dobson.
Unidentified woman, James Sant, William Powell Frith, Sir Hubert von Herkomer (age 41), Unidentified woman, Briton Riviere, Unidentified man, John Pettie, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (age 54), Frederic Leighton (age 60), Baron Leighton.
Philip Hermogenes Calderon, Walter William Ouless, Thomas Faed, Robert Walker Macbeth, Edward Onslow Ford (age 38), William Frederick Yeames, Unidentified woman, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (age 57), Unidentified man.
Mary Anderson, John Calcott Horsley, possibly Joanna Margaret Hadley, Unidentified man, Henry Tanworth Wells, possibly Alice Joanna Street, Marion Harry Spielmann, Unidentified woman.
Around 1891. Frederick Leighton (age 60). "Perseus and Andromeda". Model Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 32).
Around 1891. Frederick Leighton (age 60). "The Vestal". Model Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 32).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1891. Frederick Leighton (age 60). From Sketch In Clay For Perseus, In The Picture "Perseus And Andromeda."
Around 1891. Frederick Leighton (age 60). "Solitude". Model Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 32).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1892. Frederick Leighton (age 61). "Bacchante".
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1892. Frederick Leighton (age 61). "And The Sea Gave Up The Dead Which Were In It". Sketch for Complete Design.
1892. Frederick Leighton (age 61). Portrait of [his sister] Alexandra Orr nee Leighton (age 63), the artist's sister.
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1892. Frederick Leighton (age 61). Study in Oils for "Bacchante".
On 24th January 1892 [his father] Dr Frederic Septimus Leighton (age 92) died.
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1893. Frederick Leighton (age 62). "Atalanta."
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1894. Frederick Leighton (age 63). "Fatidica".
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1894. Frederick Leighton (age 63). Studies for "Fatidica".
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1894. Frederick Leighton (age 63). "Fatidica".
Frederick Leighton Biography. Around 1895. Frederick Leighton (age 64). "Cleobouline". Model Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen (age 22).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1895. Frederick Leighton (age 64). "Flaming June". Model Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 36).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1895. Frederick Leighton (age 64). "Memories". Model Edith Ellen Pullen (age 29).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1895. Frederick Leighton (age 64). Study for "Flaming June". Model Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 36).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1895. Frederick Leighton (age 64). Studies from Dorothy Dene for "Clytie".
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1895. Frederick Leighton (age 64). "The Jealousy of Simœtha, the Sorceress". Model Henrietta Sarah Pullen (age 27).
Henrietta Sarah Pullen: In October 1867 she was born to Abraham Pullen and Sarah Eagle.
Frederick Leighton Biography. Before 1896. Frederick Leighton (age 65). "Farewell". Model Henrietta Sarah Pullen (age 28).
On 24th January 1896 Frederick Leighton (age 65) was created 1st Baron Leighton of Stretton in Shropshire. He died the next day.
On 25th January 1896 Frederick Leighton (age 65) died. Baron Leighton of Stretton in Shropshire and Baronet Leighton of Holland Park Road in St Mary Abbots in Kensington in Middlesex extinct. He left Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 37) £5,000, plus another £5,000 in trust for herself and her sisters; the largest bequest he made.
Frederick Leighton Biography. Frederick Leighton. Study For Figure In Panel In Royal Exchange—"Phœnicians Bartering With Britons". Leighton House Collection.
Frederick Leighton Biography. Chapter V. Leighton As President Of The Royal Academy 1878-1896.