Traces the development of Leighton's work, from early sketches to the later large-scale paintings and sculpture. Includes 40 reproductions of Leighton's work.
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Ash adds to his series of slim but lavish monographs on nineteenth-century British artists (previous subjects include Alma-Tadema, Burne-Jones, and Tissot) an album of 40 images painted by Frederic Leighton (1830^-96), the punctilious wealthy bachelor whose first great success came when Queen Victoria bought his Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna (1853^-55) because "Albert was enchanted with it." Besides that painting about a painter, the 40 selections include many on mythological and biblical subjects, some portraits and idealized domestic scenes (e.g., Mother and Child and Sisters, recently auctioned for 480,000--proof that Victorian taste is once again fashionable), and a lovely gardenscape that, despite its more meticulously drawn realism, may remind many Americans of their beloved French impressionists. The plates, as in Ash's other offerings, are well printed on big (11-by-14-inch) pages, with generous notes on facing pages. Ray Olson
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