The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . 251 273 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xxl 56. Figures for Ceiling for Music Room, previous to THE Drapery being added, 1886 .... To face page 276 57. Original Sketch in Charcoal of Dancing Figures for the same, 1886 „ „ 276 Leighton House Collection. 58. Water Colour Drawing of the Ca dOro, Venice . „ „ 285 {Colour) 59. View in Algiers {Colour) >, » 299 60. View in Algiers {Colour) „ ,,301 61. Sketch for Salome, the Daughter of Herodias, 1857 „ „ 308 Leighton House Collection. 62. Sixteen Scenes in Florence — Illustrations to Romola Beginning page 3


The life, letters and work of Frederic Leighton . 251 273 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xxl 56. Figures for Ceiling for Music Room, previous to THE Drapery being added, 1886 .... To face page 276 57. Original Sketch in Charcoal of Dancing Figures for the same, 1886 „ „ 276 Leighton House Collection. 58. Water Colour Drawing of the Ca dOro, Venice . „ „ 285 {Colour) 59. View in Algiers {Colour) >, » 299 60. View in Algiers {Colour) „ ,,301 61. Sketch for Salome, the Daughter of Herodias, 1857 „ „ 308 Leighton House Collection. 62. Sixteen Scenes in Florence — Illustrations to Romola Beginning page 310 By kind permission of ^ts. Charles Lewes. 1. Blind Scholar and Daughter. 2. Suppose You let me look at Myself; Nellos Shop. 5. The First Key. 6. Peasants Fair. 7. The Dying Message. 8. Florentine Joke. 9. The Escaped Prisoner. 10. NiccoLo AT Work. 11. You didnt Think. 13. Father, I will be Guided. 15. The Visible Madonna. 16. Dangerous Colleagues. 17. Monna Brigida. 18. But You will Help. 20. Drifting. 21. Will his Eyes Open?. i-j ...IViC HEAD PRESENTED TO THE QUEEN BY LORD LEIGHTONBy permission of Her Majesty the Queen THE LIFE OF LORD LEIGHTON warmth, sincerity, and zeal for his special vocation, that hisinfluence as an official was never deadened by theoretic red-tapeism, nor by secondary or side issues. Leighton everVOL. L ^ ERRATA Page 67, line ^i, for unscorched, read sunscorched.» I03) )) 2,^, for worse that, read worse than.» 169, „ 8,/r owing . . from, read owing . . to.„ 265, note. The reference number should be to Edward, instead of to Adelaide.„ 296, line 17, for Couture, read Conture. Leighton—Vol. I. lEAD PRESENTED TO THE QUEEN BY LORD LEIGHTONBy permission of Her Majesty the Queen THE LIFE OF LORD LEIGHTON INTRODUCTION In i860, when Leighton, at the age of thirty, definitely settledin England, art was alive in two distinctly new was writing, the Pre-Raphaelites were painting, andPrince Albert, besides e


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