LEICKERT, CHARLES, born at Brussels in 1817. Landscape and city-views painter, pupil of Bartholomeus van Hove and Wynand Nuyen, then of Schelfhout; travelled in the Netherlands and Germany, and in 1856 became member of the Amsterdam Academy. Works: Winter Landscape (1867), Amsterdam Museum; City View in Winter (2), Rotterdam Museum; Dutch City, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Winter Landscape, Stettin Museum.—Immerzeel, ii. 167; Kramm, iv. 961.
LEIGHTON, E. BLAIR, born in England;
contemporary. Genre painter. Exhibits
at Royal Academy. Works: Until
Death do Us part (1879); Gossip, Un Gage
d'Amour (1881); The Foreign Bride, Interesting
Strangers (1882); Duty (1883);
Gladiator's Wife, Abelard and Héloïse,
Conquest (1884); The Secret (1885); The
Confessional, Too near to be pleasant
(1886).
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LEIGHTON, Sir FREDERICK, Bart.,
born at Scarborough,
England, Dec. 3, 1830.
History and portrait
painter; when eleven
years old studied drawing
in Rome under
Francesco Meli; student
in Berlin Academy,
Florence Academy,
under E. Steinle
at Frankfort, at Brussels,
and the Louvre Life-School, Paris; then,
until 1853, again under Professor Steinle, and
finally for three years in Rome. Sent to Royal
Academy, in 1855, The Procession of Cimabue's
Madonna (Buckingham Palace), which
attracted great attention and was bought by
the Queen. After this success he resided four
years in Paris, studying part of the time under
Ary Scheffer, and sending pictures nearly
every year to the Royal Academy; was elected
an A.R.A. in 1864, R.A. in 1869, and president
in 1878, when he was knighted. Created a
baronet of the United Kingdom in 1885.
Medal, 2d class, Paris, 1859; Officer L. of
Honour, 1878; Corresponding Member of
Institute of France; Member of Academies
of St. Luke and Florence; Medal of Honour,
Antwerp Exposition, 1885. Sir Frederick
has a splendid studio at Kensington, filled
with art treasures. He has travelled extensively
in Europe, Egypt, and the East; is a
fine sculptor and musician. Works: Triumph
of Music (1856); Fisherman and Syren,
Romeo and Juliet (1858); Pavonia,
Sunny Hours, La Nanna (1859); Capri at
Sunrise (1860); Paolo and Francesca, A
Dream, Lieder ohne Worte, Capri—Paganos
(1861); Odalisque, Michelangelo nursing
his Servant, Sea Echoes, Star of Bethlehem
(1862); Jezebel and Ahab, Girl feeding
Peacocks (1863); Orpheus and Eurydice,
Dante in Exile, Golden Hours (1864); David,
Widow's Prayer, Helen of Troy (1865); Painter's
Honeymoon, Syracusan Brides (1866);
Venus Unrobing, Roman Mother, Spanish
Dancing Girl (1867); Ariadne Abandoned,
Acme and Septimius, Actæa (1868); Electra
at Tomb of Agamemnon, Helios and Rhodos,
St. Jerome (1869); Hercules wrestling
with Death (1871); After Vespers (1872);
Weaving the Wreath, Industrial Arts of
Peace (1873); Old Damascus (1874); Little
Fatima (1875); Daphnephoria, Teresina
(1876); Music Lesson, Study (1877); Nausicaä,
Winding the Skein (1878); Elijah in
the Wilderness, Amarilla (1879); Sister's
Kiss, Iostephane Light of the Harem, Psamathe,
Crenaia (1880); Elisha Idyl, Whispers
(1881); Day Dreams, Wedded, Phryne
at Eleusis, Antigone, Melittion (1882); A
Dance, Vestal, Kittens, Memories (1883);
Letty, Cymon and Iphigenia, A Nap, Sun
Gleams (1884); Reconciliation of Montague
and Capulet at Tomb of Juliet, Mrs. Joseph
Harrison, Philadelphia. Sir Frederick is
engaged (1886) on mural paintings in South
Kensington Museum and on a mythological
triptych illustrating Music, for the ceiling
of the music-room of Mr. Marquand's house,
New York.—Meynall, 1; Portfolio (1870),
161; (1879), 1; Univ. Mag. (1879), iii. 49;
Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 372.
