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Portrait Of Amy Augusta, Lady Coleridge by Lord Frederic Leighton
Portrait Of Amy Augusta, Lady Coleridge by Lord Frederic Leighton

Portrait Of Amy Augusta, Lady Coleridge

Portrait Of Amy Augusta, Lady Coleridge (1853 – 1933) oleh Pelukis British Tuan Frederic Leighton (1830 – 1896); was a painter and a sculptor, who was part of the Academic, Neoclassic and British Aesthetic Movements; as well as a politician.

This is an elegant and beautiful portrait of Amy Augusta Jackson, who later married John Coleridge (1820 – 1894), 1st Baron Coleridge an English lawyer, judge and Liberal politician.

She is seated in a large red leather chair, that has a large tan fur accented shawl draped over the left arm of the chair, that compliments the full length white and pink dress she is wearing with large leaf patterns on it.

The dress has a semi wide deep neckline, with material along the chest and back perimeter that form a look of a large flower.

She is wearing a gold and silver ring on the fourth finger of her left hand, which is most likely a wedding ring; and with her left hand she is holding a large white feather hand fan with a large pink ribbon on the handle.

Behind her is a panel wall that has hanging from it a large red drape that matches the color of the leather chair.

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Maklumat Di Bawah Dari Wikipedia.org

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 paperthe only known full-length study of Schopenhauer done from life.

Semasa dia sedang 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. Dari 1855 ke 1859 he lived in Paris, where he met Ingres, Delacroix, Corot and Millet.

Dalam 1860, dia berpindah ke 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. Dalam 1864 he became an associate of the Royal Academy and in 1878 he became its President (1878–96).

His 1877 arca, 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 thatExcept 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 Januari 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.

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