Light of the Harem
Light of the Harem c1880 by British Painter Lord Frederic Leighton (1830 – 1896); whom was also a painter and a sculpture, that was part of the Academicism, Neoclassicism and British Aestheticism Movements.
EN portræt of a beautiful young woman that is a member of a classic harem that is standing in what may be a dressing room of sorts, with black marble pillars accented with golden crowns, decorative gold cover walls and decorative mosaic art on the walls.
The young woman is wearing a beautiful golden gown with long embroidered sleeves that and embroidered trimming along the edges of the gown that is covering a matching golden dress that is tied off around her waist with a wide brown sash.
A very young girl stands in front of her holding a mirror in her direction, as light streams in through an open window illuminating them both with the warm glow of sunlight as the young women wraps a beautifully colored and decorated floral scarf around her head.
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Leighton was born in Scarborough to Augusta Susan and Dr. Frederic Septimus Leighton. He had two sisters including Alexandra who was Robert Browning’s biographer.[2] He was educated at University College School, London.
He then received his artistic training on the European continent, first from Eduard von Steinle and then from Giovanni Costa. At age 17, in the summer of 1847, he met the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in Frankfurt and drew his portrait, in graphite and gouache on paper – the only known full-length study of Schopenhauer done from life.
Da han var 24 he was in Florence; he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti, and painted the procession of the Cimabue Madonna through the Borgo Allegri. Fra 1855 til 1859 han boede i Paris, where he met Ingres, Delacroix, Corot and Millet.
I 1860, han flyttede til London, where he associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He designed Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s tomb for Robert Browning in the English Cemetery, Florence in 1861. I 1864 he became an associate of the Royal Academy and in 1878 he became its President (1878–96).
His 1877 skulptur, Athlete Wrestling with a Python, was considered at its time to inaugurate a renaissance in contemporary British sculpture, referred to as the New Sculpture. American art critic Earl Shinn claimed at the time that “Except Leighton, there is scarce any one capable of putting up a correct frescoed figure in the archway of the Kensington Museum”. His paintings represented Britain at the great 1900 Paris Exhibition.
Leighton was knighted at Windsor in 1878, and was created a baronet, of Holland Park Road in the Parish of St Mary Abbots, Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, eight years later. He was the first painter to be given a peerage, in the 1896 New Year Honours.
The patent creating him Baron Leighton, of Stretton in the County of Shropshire, was issued on 24 januar 1896; Leighton died the next day of angina pectoris.
On his death his barony was extinguished after existing for only a day; this is a record in the Peerage. His house in Holland Park, London has been turned into a museum, the Leighton House Museum.
It contains many of his drawings and paintings, as well as some of his former art collection including works by Old Masters and his contemporaries such as a painting dedicated to Leighton by Sir John Everett Millais.
The house also features many of Leighton’s inspirations, including his collection of Iznik tiles. Its centerpiece is the magnificent Arab Hall. The Hall is featured in issue ten of Cornucopia. A blue plaque commemorates Leighton at Leighton House Museum.
