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 LEICKERT, CHARLES, born at Brussels in 1817. Landscape and city-views painter, pupil of Bartholomeus van Hove and Wynand Nuyen, then of Schelfhout; travelled in the Netherlands and Germany, and in 1856 became member of the Amsterdam Academy. Works: Winter Landscape (1867), Amsterdam Museum; City View in Winter (2), Rotterdam Museum; Dutch City, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Winter Landscape, Stettin Museum.—Immerzeel, ii. 167; Kramm, iv. 961.

LEIGHTON, E. BLAIR, born in England; contemporary. Genre painter. Exhibits at Royal Academy. Works: Until Death do Us part (1879); Gossip, Un Gage d'Amour (1881); The Foreign Bride, Interesting Strangers (1882); Duty (1883); Gladiator's Wife, Abelard and Héloïse, Conquest (1884); The Secret (1885); The Confessional, Too near to be pleasant (1886).

LEIGHTON, Sir FREDERICK, Bart., born at Scarborough, England, Dec. 3, 1830. History and portrait painter; when eleven years old studied drawing in Rome under Francesco Meli; student in Berlin Academy, Florence Academy, under E. Steinle at Frankfort, at Brussels, and the Louvre Life-School, Paris; then, until 1853, again under Professor Steinle, and finally for three years in Rome. Sent to Royal Academy, in 1855, The Procession of Cimabue's Madonna (Buckingham Palace), which attracted great attention and was bought by the Queen. After this success he resided four years in Paris, studying part of the time under Ary Scheffer, and sending pictures nearly every year to the Royal Academy; was elected an A.R.A. in 1864, R.A. in 1869, and president in 1878, when he was knighted. Created a baronet of the United Kingdom in 1885. Medal, 2d class, Paris, 1859; Officer L. of Honour, 1878; Corresponding Member of Institute of France; Member of Academies of St. Luke and Florence; Medal of Honour, Antwerp Exposition, 1885. Sir Frederick has a splendid studio at Kensington, filled with art treasures. He has travelled extensively in Europe, Egypt, and the East; is a fine sculptor and musician. Works: Triumph of Music (1856); Fisherman and Syren, Romeo and Juliet (1858); Pavonia, Sunny Hours, La Nanna (1859); Capri at Sunrise (1860); Paolo and Francesca, A Dream, Lieder ohne Worte, Capri—Paganos (1861); Odalisque, Michelangelo nursing his Servant, Sea Echoes, Star of Bethlehem (1862); Jezebel and Ahab, Girl feeding Peacocks (1863); Orpheus and Eurydice, Dante in Exile, Golden Hours (1864); David, Widow's Prayer, Helen of Troy (1865); Painter's Honeymoon, Syracusan Brides (1866); Venus Unrobing, Roman Mother, Spanish Dancing Girl (1867); Ariadne Abandoned, Acme and Septimius, Actæa (1868); Electra at Tomb of Agamemnon, Helios and Rhodos, St. Jerome (1869); Hercules wrestling with Death (1871); After Vespers (1872); Weaving the Wreath, Industrial Arts of Peace (1873); Old Damascus (1874); Little Fatima (1875); Daphnephoria, Teresina (1876); Music Lesson, Study (1877); Nausicaä, Winding the Skein (1878); Elijah in the Wilderness, Amarilla (1879); Sister's Kiss, Iostephane Light of the Harem, Psamathe, Crenaia (1880); Elisha Idyl, Whispers (1881); Day Dreams, Wedded, Phryne at Eleusis, Antigone, Melittion (1882); A Dance, Vestal, Kittens, Memories (1883); Letty, Cymon and Iphigenia, A Nap, Sun Gleams (1884); Reconciliation of Montague and Capulet at Tomb of Juliet, Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Philadelphia. Sir Frederick is engaged (1886) on mural paintings in South Kensington Museum and on a mythological triptych illustrating Music, for the ceiling of the music-room of Mr. Marquand's house, New York.—Meynall, 1; Portfolio (1870), 161; (1879), 1; Univ. Mag. (1879), iii. 49; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 372.