LEICKERT LEICKERT, CHARLES, born at Brus- sels in 1817. Landscape and city-views painter, pupil of Bartholomeus van Hove anil Wynand Xuyen, then of Sehelfhout ; travelled in the Netherlands and Germany, and in 185C became member of the Amster- dam Academy. Works : Winter Landscape (1807), Amsterdam Museum ; City View in Winter (2), Rotterdam Museum ; Dutch City, Kuusthalle, Hamburg ; Winter Land- scape, Stettin Museum. Inimerzeel, ii. 1G7 ; Kramm, iv. 1)01. LEIGHTON, E. BLAIR, born in Eng- land ; contemporary. Genre painter. Ex- hibits at Royal Academy. Works: Until Death do Us part (187!)) ; Gossip, Uu Gage d'Amonr (1881) ; The Foreign Bride, In- teresting Strangers (1882) ; Duty (1883) ; Gladiator's Wife, Abelard and Helo'ise, Conquest (1884) ; The Secret (1885) ; The Confessional, Too near to be pleasant (1880). LEIGHTON, Sir FREDERICK, Bart, I born at Scarborough, England, Dec. 3, 1830. History and portrait painter ; when eleven years old studied draw- j ing in R o in e under Francesco Meli ; stu- dent in Berlin Acad- emy, Florence Acad- emy, under E. Steinle at Frankfort, at Brus- sels, and the Louvre Life-School, Paris; then, until 1853,again under Professor Steiule, and finally for three years in Rome. Sent to Royal Academy, in 1855, The Procession of G'ima- bnr'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 un- der Ary Scheffer, and sending pictures nearly every year to the Royal Academy ; was elected an A.R. A. in 1804, R. A. in 1809, 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 exten- sively in Europe, Egypt, and the East ; is a fine sculptor and musician. Works : Tri- umph of Music (1850) ; Fisherman and Sy- ren, Romeo and Juliet (1858) ; Pavonia, Sunny Hours, La Nanua (1859) ; Capri at Sunrise (1800) ; Paolo and Francesca, A Dream, Lieder ohne Worte, Capri Paga- nos (1801) ; Odalisque, Michelangelo nurs- ing his Servant, Sea Echoes, Star of Beth- lehem (1802) ; Jezebel and Ahab, Girl feed- ing Peacocks (1803); Orpheus and Eurydice, Dante in Exile, Golden Hours (1804); David, Widow's Prayer, Helen of Troy (1865) ; Paint- er's Honeymoon, Syracusan Brides (1800) ; Venus Unrobing, Roman Mother, Spanish Dancing Girl (1807) ; Ariadne Abandoned, Acme and Septimius, Actsea (1868); Electra at Tomb of Agamemnon, Helios and Rho- dos, St. Jerome (1809) ; Hercules wrestling with Death (1871) ; After Vespers (1872) ; Weaving the Wreath, Industrial Arts of Peace (1873) ; Old Damascus (1874) ; Lit- tle Fatima (1875) ; Daphnepkoria, Teresina (1870) ; Music Lesson, Study (1877) ; Nausi- caii, Winding the Skein (1878) ; Elijah in the Wilderness, Amarilla (1879) ; Sister's Kiss, lostephane Light of the Harem, Psa- inathe, Crenaia (1880) ; Elisha Idyl, Whis- pers (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 (1880) 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.
