Lord Leighton

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, PRA (1830 – 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subject matter.

In 1860, he moved to London, where he associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. His 1877 sculpture, Athlete Wrestling with a Python, was considered at its time to inaugurate a renaissance in contemporary British sculpture, referred to as the New Sculpture.

Periods: Academic art, Aestheticism, Neoclassicism, Classicism.