Leighton, Frederick, Lord, eminent English artist, born at Scarborough; studied in the chief art-centres of the Continent; his first exhibit at the Royal Academy being “Cimabue's Madonna carried in Procession through Florence,” which was followed by a numerous array of others of classic merit, and showing the scholar as well as the artist; he distinguished himself in sculpture as well as painting, and died President of the Royal Academy after being ennobled (1830‒1897).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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