The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . tural modesty, allied to the conscientiousnesswith which he carried out his feeling of duty towards hisvocation, was apt to lay more stress on the necessity fortaking pains than on the necessity of possessing the realsource of his power of industry. He saw too often thefatal results of artists depending on talent to achieve whatonly talent allied to industry can perform, for him not toaccentuate the all - importance of unceasing labour. Hewrote to his elder sister with reference to one of these fatalresults: I have not seen that young mans rece
The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . tural modesty, allied to the conscientiousnesswith which he carried out his feeling of duty towards hisvocation, was apt to lay more stress on the necessity fortaking pains than on the necessity of possessing the realsource of his power of industry. He saw too often thefatal results of artists depending on talent to achieve whatonly talent allied to industry can perform, for him not toaccentuate the all - importance of unceasing labour. Hewrote to his elder sister with reference to one of these fatalresults: I have not seen that young mans recent work,neither do I hunger and thirst thereafter ; twenty-one yearsago, or more, his parents brought me a composition of his—it justified the highest hopes—it was very ambitious in itsscope (though the work of a child), and the ambition was STUDY OF A FADED FLOWER OF PUMPKIN. Rome, 1854 Leighton House Collection STUDY OF FLOWER OF A PUMPKIN. Meran, 1856 Leighton House Collection ^- \0 % UTS iiotJDsIioD 38tJoH notrlgisJ iU*! A p 3J^ HO YaUT2. #^-\
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