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Artists Biography

British 1853 - 1922

Mr Edmund Blair Leighton was born in London, on September 1st 1853, his father being that Charles Blair Leighton, portrait and subject painter, whose exhibits at the Royal Academy and other London galleries covered the period between 1843 and 1855. The son was educated at University College School, before taking a position in an office in the city, but entered the Royal Academy Schools after a course of evening study at South Kensington and Heatherley’s.

He commenced exhibiting in 1874, and succeeded, four years later, in securing the verdict of the Hanging Committee of the Royal Academy in favour of two works, entitled respectively ‘Witness My Act and Seal,’ and ‘A Flaw in the Title.’ Since then his highly wrought style was regularly represented at Burlington House until two years prior to his decease. Among the better known of his pictures, many of which were published, may be named ‘The Dying Copernicus (1880), To Arms (1888), Lay thy sweet hand in mine and trust in me ( 1891), Lady Godiva (1892), Two Strings (1893), Launched in Life

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Edmund Blair Leighton Biography | Oil Paintings

Edmund Blair Leighton was the son of the portrait and genre painter, Charles Blair Leighton, who taught him art. He took night courses at South Kensington and Heatherley's before he became a student at the Royal Academy Schools. He started exhibiting in 1874 when he was twenty-six, and after four years trying, the Hanging Committee of the Royal Academy voted in favor of two of his works, Witness My Act and Seal, and A Flaw in the Title, from then on between 1878 to 1920 he exhibited at the Royal Academy.

Edmund Blair Leighton was a meticulous painter, producing highly-finished, decorative pictures, displaying romanticized scenes that were very popular with the public. He left no journals, and even though he exhibited at the Royal Academy for over forty years, he was never made an Associate or Academician. Leighton was, as might be expected from his historic genre paintings a collector of old musical instruments, art, and furniture. The reasons for Edmund Blair Leighton's continuing popularity are not difficult to unders

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Edmund Leighton

British painter (1852–1922)

Not to be confused with Frederic Leighton.

Edmund Blair Leighton
Leighton in 1900
Born	Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-09-21)21 September 1852 London, England
Died	1 September 1922(1922-09-01) (aged 69) London, England
Nationality	British
Known for	Painting

Edmund Blair LeightonROI (21 September 1852 – 1 September 1922) was an English painter of historical genre scenes, specialising in Regency and medieval subjects. His art is associated with the pre-Raphaelite movement of the mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.^[1]

Biography

Leighton was the son of the artist Charles Blair Leighton (1823–1855) and Caroline Leighton (née Boosey). He was educated at University College School, leaving at 15 to work for a tea merchant. Wishing to study art, he went to evening classes in South Kensington and then to the Heatherley School of Fine Art in Newman Street, London. Aged 21, he entered the Royal Academy Schools. Among his first commissions were monochrome illustrat