Frederic Leighton

The Right Honourable The Lord Leighton PRA
Frederic Leighton, Self-portrait, 1880
Born	Frederic Leighton (1830-12-03)3 December 1830 Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died	25 January 1896(1896-01-25) (aged 65) Kensington, London, England
Education	Eduard von Steinle Giovanni Costa
Known for	Painting and sculpture
Notable work	Flaming June
Movement	Academicism, Pre-Raphaelite and British Aestheticism
Awards	Prix de Rome Légion d'honneur
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Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, PRA (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.^{[citation needed]}

Leighton was the bearer of the shortest-lived peerage in history; after only one day, his hereditary peerage became extinct upon his death.^[1]