Lord Frederick Leighton Paintings
1830 - 1896 Painter,Sculptor,Illustrator,England, Victorian Neoclassicism
Light of the Harem, c.1880
Oil on canvas, 60 x 32.99 inches [152.4 x 83.8 cm]
Private collection Figurative Art
It may be that the Daphnephoria of 1876 remains an unsurpassed example of Leighton paintings, but not a year has since passed without at leas one memorable painting from his easel. Among them will be specially remembered the large and imaginative Elisha raising the son of the Shunamite, Elijah in the Wilderness, also on a large scale; The Light of the Harem, Phryne at Eleusis, and in the last Academy Exhibition Lachrymae, and Flaming June. These, of course, were all of them at the Academy. At The Grosvenor Gallery, besides some charming sketches of Damascus, the record of an Eastern tour, were a good many of his minor pictures, and some of his portraits, Mrs Algernon Sartoris, for instance, and Miss Stewart Hodgson.
