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The Accolade Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

The Accolade

Tristan and Isolde Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

Tristan and Isolde

God Speed Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

God Speed

Lay thy sweet hand in Mine and Trust in Me Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

Lay thy sweet hand in Mine and Trust in Me

Stitching the Standard Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

Stitching the Standard

The King and the Beggar-maid Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

The King and the Beggar-maid

A Picnic Party Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

A Picnic Party

Yes or No? Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

Yes or No?

A Little Prince Likely In Time To Bless a Royal Throne Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

A Little Prince Likely In Time To Bless a Royal Throne

Alain Chartier Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

Alain Chartier

The Shadow Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

The Shadow

Vanquished Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

Vanquished

In Time of Peril Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

In Time of Peril

To Arms Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

To Arms

A Favour Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

A Favour

Conquest Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

Conquest

The Elopement Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

The Elopement

The Ferry Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

The Ferry

My Next Door Neighbour Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

My Next Door Neighbour

Edmund Blair Leighton

A stem chase

Edmund Blair Leighton

Battle of Bannockburn - Bruce addresses troops

Edmund Blair Leighton

Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament

Edmund Blair Leighton

Ribbons Laces

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Edmund Blair Leighton

A flaw in the title

Edmund Blair Leighton

A little prince likely in time to bless a royal throne

Edmund Blair Leighton

A love token

Edmund Blair Leighton

A Medieval Beauty

Edmund Blair Leighton

A Nibble

Edmund Blair Leighton

A quiet moment

Edmund Blair Leighton

A Stolen interview

Edmund Blair Leighton

A Wet Sunday Morning

Edmund Blair Leighton

Abelard And His student Heloisa

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Adieu

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After service

Edmund Blair Leighton

An appointment

Edmund Blair Leighton

Chaff

Edmund Blair Leighton

Con amore

Edmund Blair Leighton

Courtship

Edmund Blair Leighton

Elaine

Edmund Blair Leighton

Faded Laurels

Edmund Blair Leighton

How Liza Loved the King

Edmund Blair Leighton

In Time of Peril

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Lay thy sweet hand in mine and trust in me

Edmund Blair Leighton

Market day

Edmund Blair Leighton

My fair Lady

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My Next-Door Neighbour

Edmund Blair Leighton

Old Times

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Olivia

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On the Threshold

Edmund Blair Leighton

Pelleas and Melisande

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Signing the register

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Sorrow and Song

Edmund Blair Leighton

Stiching the Standard

Edmund Blair Leighton

Sweet solitude

Edmund Blair Leighton

The Dedication

Edmund Blair Leighton

The Fond Farewell

Edmund Blair Leighton

The Gladiator's Wife

Edmund Blair Leighton

The Heiress

Edmund Blair Leighton

The Keys

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The Lord of Burleigh, Tennyson

Edmund Blair Leighton

The Lord of the Manor

Edmund Blair Leighton

The Pink Bonnet

Edmund Blair Leighton

The Prisoner

Edmund Blair Leighton

The question

Edmund Blair Leighton

The request

Edmund Blair Leighton

The roses' day

Edmund Blair Leighton

The secret

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The Windmiller's Guest

Edmund Blair Leighton

Two strings to her bow

Edmund Blair Leighton

Waiting

Edmund Blair Leighton

Waiting for the coach

Edmund Blair Leighton

Wedding march

Edmund Blair Leighton

Accolade

Edmund Blair Leighton

Sweets-to-the-Sweet

Edmund Blair Leighton

The Charity of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.

Edmund Blair Leighton

Fruit and Flowers

Edmund Blair Leighton

Gossip

Edmund Blair Leighton

A Source of Administration

Edmund Blair Leighton

A Study

Edmund Blair Leighton

Le Billet

Edmund Blair Leighton

The Hostage

Edmund Blair Leighton

The Piano Lesson

Edmund Blair Leighton

A Favor

Edmund Blair Leighton

Alain Chartier

Edmund Blair Leighton

Call to Arms

Edmund Blair Leighton

Courtship

Edmund Blair Leighton

Duty

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Forest Tryst

Edmund Blair Leighton

God_Speed!

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Lady Godiva

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Lady in a Garden

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Lilac

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Off

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The King and the Beggar-maid

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Till Death Do Us Part

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Tristan and Isolde

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Love and the Maiden

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Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth

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Stitching the Standard

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The Gallant Suitor

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The golden train

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The Love Letter

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The Love Letter

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The Rehearsal,

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The Shadow

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The Thanksgiving Service on the Field of Agincourt

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Vows

Edmund Blair Leighton

Witness My Act and Seal

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God Speed Print by Edmund Blair Leighton

God Speed

Edmund Blair Leighton (21 September 1852 – 1 September 1922) was an English painter of historical genre scenes, specializing in Regency and medieval subjects.

Biography


God Speed! (1900)

Leighton was the son of the artist Charles Blair Leighton. He was educated at University College School, before becoming a student at the Royal Academy Schools. He married Katherine Nash in 1885 and they went on to have a son and daughter. He exhibited annually at the Royal Academy from 1878 to 1920.

Leighton was a fastidious craftsman, producing highly finished, decorative pictures, displaying romanticized scenes with a popular appeal. It would appear that he left no diaries, and though he exhibited at the Royal Academy for over forty years, he was never an Academician or an Associate.
Obituary

The following obituary of Leighton is taken from a magazine published early in 1923. It is one of several publications to have given the year of birth as 1853 instead of the correct date of 1852, which error is in the process of being corrected in newer publications.[1]

Obituary - The late Edmund Blair Leighton ROI 1853–1922.

The death of Mr Edmund Blair Leighton, on September 1, removed from our midst a painter who, though he did not attain to the higher flights of art, yet played a distinguished part in aiding the public mind to an appreciation of the romance attaching to antiquity, and to a realisation of the fellowship of mankind throughout the ages.

Mr Blair Leighton was born in London, on September 1, 1853, his father being that Charles Blair Leighton, portrait and subject painter, whose exhibits at the Royal Academy and other London galleries covered the period between 1843 and 1855. The son was educated at University College School, before taking a position in an office in the city, but entered the Royal Academy Schools after a course of evening study at South Kensington and Heatherley's.

He commenced exhibiting in 1874, and succeeded, four years later, in securing the verdict of the Hanging Committee of the Royal Academy in favour of two works, entitled respectively ‘Witness My Act and Seal,’ and ‘A Flaw in the Title.’ Since then his highly wrought style was regularly represented at Burlington House until two years prior to his decease. Among the better known of his pictures, many of which were published, may be named ‘The Dying Copernicus (1880), To Arms (1888), Lay thy sweet hand in mine and trust in me ( 1891), Lady Godiva (1892), Two Strings (1893), Launched in Life (1894), The Accolade (1901), Tristan and Isolde (1907), The Dedication (1908), The Shadow (1909), ‘To the Unknown Land (1911),’ and ‘The Boyhood of Alfred The Great,’ 1913. For the past dozen years or so, Mr E Blair Leighton had been a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. He had married in 1885, Miss Katherine Nash, by whom he had, with a daughter, one son, Mr E J Blair Leighton, who has also adopted painting as a profession.

List of works

Old Times (1877), private collection.[2]
Till Death Do Us Part (1878)
The Dying Copernicus (1880)
Un Gage d'Amour (1881), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.[3]
Abelard and his Pupil Heloise (1882), Phillips Auctioneers, UK.[4]
Duty (1883)
Conquest (1884)[5]
The Gladiator's Wife (1884), private collection.[4]
The Rehearsal (1888), Croydon Clocktower, UK.[4]
Call To Arms (1888), Roy Miles Fine Paintings.[4]
A Stolen Interview (1888)
Olivia (1888)
How Liza Loved the King (1890), Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Burnley.[4]
Lay thy sweet hand in mine and trust in me (1891)
Lady Godiva (1892), Leeds City Art Gallery.[4]
Two Strings (1893)
Goodbye (1893)
Launched in Life (1894)
My Next-Door Neighbour (1894), private collection.[4]
Waiting for the Coach (1895), Manchester Art Gallery.[6]
A Favour (1898)
Off (1899), Manchester Art Gallery.[7]
God Speed! (1900)
On the Threshold (1900), Manchester Art Gallery.[8]
The Accolade (1901), private collection.[4]
Adieu (1901), Manchester Art Gallery.[9]
Lilac (1901)
Tristan and Isolde (AKA The End of the Song) (1902)
Alain Chartier (1903)
Ribbons and Laces for Very Pretty Faces (1904)
The Dedication (1908)
The Shadow (1909), City Hall, Cardiff[10]
The Key (1909)
Pelleas and Melisande (1910) Williamson Art Gallery and Museum
To the Unknown Land (1911)
The Boyhood of Alfred The Great (1913)
My Fair Lady (1914)
A Nibble (1914), private collection.[4]
An Arrival (1916), City Hall, Cardiff[10]
The Wedding March (1919)
The Lord of Burleigh, Tennyson (1919), private collection.[4]
Sweet Solitude (1919), private collection.[4]
After Service (1921), private collection.[11]
Signing the Register (undated), Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.[4]
The Fond Farewell (undated), Messum's, London.[4]
Lord of the Manor (undated), private collection.[4]
Sorrow and Song (undated), Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.[4]
Lady in a Garden
The Charity of St. Elizabeth of Hungary
The Rose's Day
Stitching the Standard
Waiting
Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament
Forest Tryst
Sweets to the Sweet
Courtship
Con Amore
The Request
The King and the Beggar-maid

References

Birth certificate 1852 St James, Clerkenwell, London.
"Old Times by Edmund Leighton". leicestergalleries.com. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007.
"Un Gage d'Amour". Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.
Listed at Bridgeman Art Library.
"Conquest". Sotheby's.
"Waiting for the Coach". Manchester City Galleries - Search the collection.
"Off". Manchester City Galleries - Search the collection.
"On the Threshold". Manchester City Galleries - Search the collection.
"Adieu painting". Manchester City Galleries - Search the collection.
"Visitor Information Guide" (PDF). Cardiff City Hall. 2006.
"After Service by Edmund Leighton". leicestergalleries.com. Archived from the original on May 1, 2009.

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