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Frederic Leighton

1830 - 1896

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Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British Victorian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subject matter in an academic style. His paintings were enormously popular and expensive, during his lifetime, but fell out of critical favour for many decades in the early 20th century. Leighton was the bearer of the shortest-lived peerage in history; after only one day, his hereditary peerage became extinct upon his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederic Leighton is the 149th most popular painter (up from 574th in 2019), the 387th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,114th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Painter.

Frederic Leighton was a Victorian painter, sculptor, and illustrator. He is most famous for his paintings of classical scenes and portraits.

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Among painters, Frederic Leighton ranks 149 out of 2,023. Before him are Man Ray, Lavinia Fontana, Antonello da Messina, Édouard-Henri Avril, Jean Fouquet, and Jan Steen. After him are Fernand Léger, Filippino Lippi, William Hogarth, John Constable, Gentile Bellini, and Robert Delaunay.

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Among people born in 1830, Frederic Leighton ranks 9. Before him are Camille Pissarro, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Frédéric Mistral, Abdülaziz, Paul Heyse, and Isabella II of Spain. After him are Porfirio Díaz, Hector Malot, Isma'il Pasha, Julius Lothar Meyer, Eadweard Muybridge, and Hans von Bülow. Among people deceased in 1896, Frederic Leighton ranks 8. Before him are Clara Schumann, Paul Verlaine, Anton Bruckner, August Kekulé, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, and Ivar Aasen. After him are Hippolyte Fizeau, William Morris, Otto Lilienthal, John Everett Millais, José Rizal, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederic Leighton ranks 387 out of 8,785. Before him are Roger Penrose (1931), William Wordsworth (1770), James George Frazer (1854), Saint Walpurga (710), Clement Attlee (1883), and Francis Galton (1822). After him are David Prowse (1935), Graham Greene (1904), Richard Henderson (1945), Emmeline Pankhurst (1858), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), and William Hogarth (1697).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Frederic Leighton ranks 2. Before him are J. M. W. Turner (1775). After him are William Hogarth (1697), John Constable (1776), John Everett Millais (1829), Thomas Gainsborough (1727), John Collier (1850), Edwin Landseer (1802), Joshua Reynolds (1723), Nicholas Hilliard (1547), Louis Wain (1860), and William Holman Hunt (1827).

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