The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . TtRU5Kia-^?€\ The Life, Letters and Work ofFrederic Baron Leighton Of Stretton VOL. I If any man should be constantly penetrated with a giftbestowed on him^ it is the artist who has realised as hisshare a genuine love from nature; for his enjoyment^ if heputs his gift to usury J increases with the days of his life.^ • ••••• Every man who has received a gift^ ought to feel andact as if he was a field in which a seed was planted thatothers ?night gather the harvest. FREDERIC LEIGHTON. August 1852. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leigh
The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . TtRU5Kia-^?€\ The Life, Letters and Work ofFrederic Baron Leighton Of Stretton VOL. I If any man should be constantly penetrated with a giftbestowed on him^ it is the artist who has realised as hisshare a genuine love from nature; for his enjoyment^ if heputs his gift to usury J increases with the days of his life.^ • ••••• Every man who has received a gift^ ought to feel andact as if he was a field in which a seed was planted thatothers ?night gather the harvest. FREDERIC LEIGHTON. August 1852. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton BY MRS. RUSSELL BARRINGTON AUTHOR OF reminiscences OF G. F. WATTS, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMESVOL. I NEW YORKTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1906 Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson 6- Co. Edinburgh ND. EARLY PORTRAIT OF LORD LEIGHTON From the Painting by G. F. Watts (Photogravure) By permission of the Hon. Lady Leighton-Warren and Sir Bryan Leighton, Bart. TO ALL WHO HOLD DEAR THEMEMORY OF FREDERIC LEIGHTONTHIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED WITHTHE AUTHORS APOLOGIES FORITS VERY MANY SHORTCOMINGS PREFACE Ten years and more have passed since Leighton died, yetit is still difficult to get sufficiently far away, to take in thewhole of his life and being in their just proportion to theworld in which he lived. When we are in Rome, hemmed in by narrow streets,St. Peters is invisible ; once across that wonderful Cam-pagna and mounting the slopes of Frascati, there, like ahuge pearl gleaming in the light, rises the dome of theMother Church. As distance gives the true relation betweena lofty building and its suburbs, so time alone can decidethe height of the pedestal on which to place the great. The day after Leightons death Watts wrote to me :— ... The loss to the world is so great that I almostfeel a
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