In Time of Peril, Edmund Leighton, oil on canvas, roughly 49 x 66 inches ( 124 x 169 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project, downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Aukland Art Gallery. Edmund Blair Leighton, a British Read More …
The Accolade, Edmund Blair Leighton Image file on Wikipedia, from here. For more, see my posts on Edmund Blair Leighton, and Eye Candy: Edmund Leighton’s neighbor.
My Next-Door Neighbor, Edmund Blair Leighton On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in a private collection. I love the feeling of implied narrative here — left open for the viewer to fill out the story. A passing glance? The beginnings of pursuit? An established connection? A Read More …
When I first highlighted Victorian painter Edmund Blair Leighton back in 2006, resources for images of his paintings on the web were pretty thin. Since then, some new images sources have made it much more rewarding to view his work. Leighton’s two main themes were Read More …
There’s just something about knights in armor, fair maidens in sweeping dresses and rough castle walls draped with tapestries that makes for wonderful images; from the finely wrought paintings of the Victorian era through the dramatic illustrations of Howard Pyle and N.C. Wyeth to highly Read More …
Frederick Lord Leighton (not to be confused with Edmund Blair Leighton, who I profiled last week), was one of the most influential of all Victorian Academic painters. He was very much within the academic neoclassical tradition, in contrast to the painters of that time who Read More …