The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . was successfully carried out, and notrouble has been experienced since. In his turn, Leighton sometimes appealed to me. This was notably the case whenhe was painting his Persephone, which I frankly told him I thought was the mostbeautiful picture he had ever painted. He had been in Capri, and had seen on therocks a blue flower which he wished to introduce into the foreground. We madeout what it was, and sent him tracings from plates and sketches from herbariumspecimens. These did not satisfy him, and he ultimately sent to Capri for theliving pl
The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . was successfully carried out, and notrouble has been experienced since. In his turn, Leighton sometimes appealed to me. This was notably the case whenhe was painting his Persephone, which I frankly told him I thought was the mostbeautiful picture he had ever painted. He had been in Capri, and had seen on therocks a blue flower which he wished to introduce into the foreground. We madeout what it was, and sent him tracings from plates and sketches from herbariumspecimens. These did not satisfy him, and he ultimately sent to Capri for theliving plant. He worked hard at it, and, I do not doubt, produced a very beautifulpiece of colour. That year I dined at the Academy. Persephone hung over Leightons chair,and was the subject of one of the few really witty remarks I ever heard in an after-dinner speech. But then the speaker was Lord Justice Bowen. But his beautiful foreground was all gone. Leighton, and I think he was right, ** RETURN OF PERSEPHONE/ 1891 iObi «.H7IOH4H25iH^ HO 7[5IUTHH*^. f STUDY IN COLOUR FOR RETURN OF PERSEPHONE/* 1891 By permission of Mrs. Stewart Hodgson artT? i&*^mi¥mi^ WW.
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