Frederic, Lord Leighton by Margot Brandlhuber

Externally, very smart with just some light rubbing to the joints. In a half calf binding with paper covered boards. He states that 'No name stands higher than Leighton's, or, perhaps, so high, either for mastery or for width of range'. With a preface by S Pepys Cockerell, an English architect best known for Sezincote House in Gloucestershire. Lord Leighton was known for his historical, biblical and classical paintings. They are from different periods of Leighton's life, and therefore career. The forty to this work were displayed on view at the Fine Art Society's rooms in 1896-7. It was produced by the Fine Art Society in 1898 and comprises of many sketches found in Lord Leighton's portfolios following his death. With forty plates total, each with a brief description leaf preceding it. An uncommon collection of Lord Frederic Leighton's sketches, as the issue of this volume is strictly limited to 500 copies for all countries, and no other edition will be published, the plates having been destroyed. The plates to this copy are in a very bright condition with very li A rebound copy of this work, in a half calf binding with paper covered boards. A limited edition, being number 26 of only 500 copies printed. An exceptional rebound copy of the first and only edition of this extensive collection of Lord Frederic Leighton's drawings. A very good bright copy with no previous ownership markings in like dustwrapper.

& of colour plates, 100 text illustrations. Studies in British Art 5.] Contents: The artist as artificer / Caroline Arscott - Nature transformed : Leighton, the nude and the model / Alison Smith - Drapery, sculpture and the Praxitelean ideal / Rosemary Barrow - On translating Homer : prehistory and the limits of classicism / Robyn Asleson - Aestheticising history painting / Elizabeth Pettejohn - The apotheosis of the male nude : Leighton and Michelangelo / Lene Østermark-Johansen - Leighton in Albertopolis : monumental art and objects of desire / Timm Barringer - Drawing domestic decline : Leighton's version of Romola / Mark Turner - Transparent bodies, opaque identities : personification, narrative and portraiture / Paul Barlow - Leighton and the shifting repertoires of 'masculine' artistic identity in the late Victorian period / Andrew Stephenson - From Burlington House to the Peckham Road : Leighton and art and design education / Rafael Cardoso Denis - Decoration, display, disguise : Leighton House reconsidered / Louise Campbell - Leighton and music / Michael Musgrave - Leighton : a promoter of the new painting / Anna Gruetzner Robins.

Frederic, Lord Leighton by Margot Brandlhuber