Author: Ankele, Daniel

Binding: Kindle Edition

Format: Kindle eBook

Number Of Pages: 108

Release Date: 17-07-2015

Details: EDMUND BLAIR LEIGHTON Art Book contains 90 HD Pre-Raphaelite Paintings of Historical, Genre, Portraits and Medieval subjects with annotations and interesting facts page below. Book includes Chronological Table of Contents, Top 50 Museums of the World, and is formatted for all Kindle devices, Kindle for iOS and Android Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).

BORN: September 21, 1852 in London, England.
DIED: September 1, 1922.

MOVEMENT: Pre-Raphaelite

INTERESTING FACTS:
§ Edmund's father, Charles Blair Leighton was a portrait and subject painter who studied at the Royal Academy.
§ After his father died, Edmund attended a boarding school in St. John's Wood.
§ Leighton studied at the University Collage School between 1864-1867.
§ After finishing high school, he worked in the tea business to help support his mother and two sisters.
§ Leighton took night classes at the South Kensington School of Art and Heatherley's School of Art before gaining entry to a five year program at the Royal Academy of Art School in 1874.
§ During college he worked as an illustrator for Cassel and Co., as well as magazine work for Harper's Baazar.
§ In 1878, he became a member of the Langham Sketch Club, and in 1880, served as its president.
§ Leighton was elected to The Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1887.
§ Leighton exhibited at the Royal Academy for over forty years.

Languages: English