Lord Frederic Leighton - An Artist Sketching in the Cloister of Saint Gregorio, Venice, originally uploaded by Gandalf's Gallery.
Frederic, Baron Leighton of Stretton was a great admirer of Italian Renaissance painting and showed, for his time, an advanced appreciation of the early Italian painters. He drew heavily on 15th and 16th century sources in working on Cimabue's celebrated Madonna. The vivid landscape oil sketches which Leighton made during much of his career, but rarely exhibited, are less well known than his large-scale figure paintings.
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