Frederic Leighton
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as
Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British
Victorian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical,
biblical, and
classical subject matter in an
academic style. His paintings were enormously popular and expensive, during his lifetime, but fell out of critical favour for many decades in the early 20th century.
Leighton was the bearer of the shortest-lived
peerage in history; after only one day, his hereditary peerage became extinct upon his death.
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