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Lord Leighton
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(Frederic Leighton, 1830–96, kt 1878, baron 1896) The undisputed leader of late Victorian art and the only painter to have received a peerage. The first painting he exhibited at the Royal Academy, the huge Cimabue's Madonna carried in Procession through the streets of Florence (1855, Royal Collection, on loan to the National Gallery), was bought by Queen Victoria. His most characteristic works are large paintings of Greek classical subjects, done in his own version of a high Renaissance style. In 1866 he moved into a house designed largely by himself in Holland Park Road (London W14), to which he added in 1877–9 an Arab Hall decorated with tiles collected in Egypt and Syria. Now known as Leighton House, it is kept as a museum.
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