The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . r- >*- o (^ M X H O S 00 Z o cM b o CO X tn O *T3 1—1 CJ w • H 4« < (i^ 3 -4-< 00 •a O •«S H a X o »4 O (X4 H-1 w »-J p p< o h4 INTRODUCTION 17 intellectual powers. My desire to be an artist dates as farback as my memory, and was wholly spontaneous, or ratherunprompted. My parents surrounded me with every facilityto learn drawing, but, as I have told you, strongly discoun-tenanced the idea of my being an artist unless I could beeminent in art. Still—though to excel was Leightons aim, in order tosatisfy his fathers and also his own a
The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . r- >*- o (^ M X H O S 00 Z o cM b o CO X tn O *T3 1—1 CJ w • H 4« < (i^ 3 -4-< 00 •a O •«S H a X o »4 O (X4 H-1 w »-J p p< o h4 INTRODUCTION 17 intellectual powers. My desire to be an artist dates as farback as my memory, and was wholly spontaneous, or ratherunprompted. My parents surrounded me with every facilityto learn drawing, but, as I have told you, strongly discoun-tenanced the idea of my being an artist unless I could beeminent in art. Still—though to excel was Leightons aim, in order tosatisfy his fathers and also his own ambition—within thehidden recesses of that aim lay the reverent, more sino-le-hearted worship for his mistress Art—seldom unveiled, itwould seem, when with his father, to whose purely intellectualand philosophical attitude of mind it would not have alone possessed the key to that inner sanctuary whodid not need the key ; who wanted no introducti
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