The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II Part 39

FOOTNOTES:

[89] The greater portion of this preface appeared as an article in the _Magazine of Art_, October 1899. It is with the kind permission of the proprietors that it is reprinted.

[90] Mr. De Morgan is at present engaged in making two jars in pottery, which he intends to present to the House, to fill the niches in the Arab Hall.

[91] "Leighton has been cut up unmercifully by the critics, but bears on, Robert says, not without courage. That you should say his picture looked well, was comfort in the general gloom."--_Letter from Mrs.

Browning to Mrs. Jameson, May 6th, 1856, Paris._

[92] Nineteen years later, I happened to copy the same group in water-colour; but it was only after Leighton's death that I saw this extraordinarily beautiful drawing.

LIST OF DIGNITIES AND HONOURS CONFERRED ON FREDERIC LEIGHTON

Knighted, 1878; created a Baronet, 1886; created Baron Leighton of Stretton, 1896; elected a.s.sociate of the Royal Academy, 1864; Royal Academician, 1869; President of the Royal Academy, 1878; Hon. Member, Royal Scottish Academy, and Royal Hibernian Academy, a.s.sociate of the Inst.i.tute of France, President of the International Jury of Painting, Paris Exhibition, 1878; Hon. Member, Berlin Academy, 1886; also Member of the Royal Academy of Vienna, 1888; Belgium, 1886; of the Academy of St. Luke, Rome, and the Academies of Florence (1882), Turin, Genoa, Perugia, and Antwerp (1885); Hon. D.C.L., Oxford, 1879; Hon. LL.D., Cambridge, 1879; Hon. LL.D., Edinburgh, 1884; Hon. D. Lit., Dublin, 1892; Hon. D.C.L., Durham, 1894; Hon. Fellow of Trinity College, London, 1876; Lieut.-Colonel of the 20th Middles.e.x (Artist's) Rifle Volunteers, 1876 to 1883 (resigned); then Hon. Colonel and Holder of the Volunteer Decoration; Commander of the Legion of Honour, 1889; Commander of the Order of Leopold; Knight of the Prussian Order "pour le Merite," and of the Coburg Order Dem Verdienste.

LIST OF PRINc.i.p.aL WORKS

_With Date and Place of Exhibition.[93] Corrected and amplified from "Frederic, Lord Leighton, His Life and Work," by Ernest Rhys._

1850 (_circa_). *Cimabue finding Giotto in the fields of Florence. (49-1/2 37 inches.) Steinle Inst.i.tute (Frankfort).

1850. The Duel between Romeo and Tybalt. (37 50 inches.)

1851 (_circa_). The Death of Brunelleschi. Steinle Inst.i.tute.

1851. [Early Portrait of Leighton by Himself.]

1852. *A Persian Pedlar.

1852. [Buffalmacco, the Painter. A humorous subject, from Vasari, was undertaken about this date.] See Sketch in water-colour, Leighton House Collection.

1853. Portrait of Miss Laing (Lady Nias).

1855. Cimabue's celebrated Madonna is carried in procession through the streets of Florence. In front of the Madonna, and crowned with laurels, walks Cimabue himself, with his pupil Giotto; behind it, Arnolfo di Lappo, Taddeo Gaddi, Andrea Tafi, Niccola Pisano, Buffalmacco, and Simone Memmi; in the corner, Dante. (87-1/2 205 inches.) R.A.[94]

Purchased by H.M. Queen Victoria, Buckingham Palace. See Sketches, Leighton House Collection.

1855. The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the dead bodies of Romeo and Juliet. Paris International Exhibition.[95]

1856. The Triumph of Music. (80 110 inches.) R.A. Painted in Paris.

"Orpheus, by the power of his art, redeems his wife from Hades."

1856. Pan. [A subject from Keats' _Hymn to Pan_, in the first book of "Endymion."] Painted in Paris. A figure of Pan under a fig-tree, with this inscription:--

"O thou, to whom Broad-leaved fig-trees even now foredoom Their ripen'd fruitage."

1856. Venus. [A pendant to the Pan.] The figure of a nude nymph about to bathe, with a little Cupid loosening her sandal.

Exhibited at the Manchester Exhibition and sent to America after. Painted in Paris.

1857. *Salome, the daughter of Herodias. (44-1/2 25 inches.) See Sketch, Leighton House Collection.

1858. *The Mermaid (the fisherman and the syren). (From a ballad by Goethe.) (26-1/2 18-1/2 inches.) R.A.

"Half drew she him, Half sunk he in, And never more was seen."

1858. "Count Paris, accompanied by Friar Lawrence and a band of musicians, comes to the house of the Capulets to claim his bride: he finds Juliet stretched apparently lifeless on the bed."--_Romeo and Juliet_, Act iv. sc. 5. (26-1/2 18-1/2 inches.) R.A.

1858. Reminiscence of Algiers: A Negro Dance. (Water-colour.) Suffolk Street Gallery.

1859. Sunny Hours. R.A.

1859. *Roman Lady (La Nanna). R.A.

1859. *Nanna (Pavonia). R.A.

1859. Samson and Delilah. S.S. See Sketches, Leighton House Collection.

1860. Capri--Sunrise. R.A.

1861. *Portrait of Mrs. Sutherland Orr [Mrs. S.O., a Portrait].

(28 18 inches.) R.A.

1861. *Portrait of John Hanson Walker, Esq. (23 17 inches.) Owner, H.M. The King. R.A.

1861. Paolo e Francesca. See Sketch, Leighton House Collection.

"Ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse Quando legemmo il disiato riso Esser baciato da cotanto amante, Questi, che mai da me non fia diviso, La bocca mi baci tutto tremante: Galeotto fu 'l libro e chi lo scrisse: Quel giorno piu non vi legemmo avante."

1861. A Dream.

"...Not yet--not yet-- Still there is trial for thee, still the lot To bear (the Father wills it) strife and care; With this sweet consciousness in balance set Against the world, to soothe thy suffering there The Lord rejects thee not.

Such tender words awoke me hopeful, shriven To life on earth again from dream of heaven."

1861. Lieder ohne Worte. R.A. See Sketches, Leighton House Collection.

1861. J.A. A Study. R.A.

1861. Capri--Paganos. R.A.

1862. Odalisque. R.A.