The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II Part 40

1862. *The Star of Bethlehem. (60 23-1/2 inches.) One of the Magi, from the terrace of his house, stands looking at the star in the East; the lower part of the picture indicates a road, which he may be supposed just to have left. R.A. See Sketches, Leighton House Collection.

1862. Sisters. R.A.

1862. *Michael Angelo Nursing his Dying Servant. (43 36 inches.) R.A. See Sketches, Leighton House Collection.

1862. Duett. R.A.

1862. Sea Echoes. R.A.

1862. Rustic Music. R.A.

1863. Jezebel and Ahab, having caused Naboth to be put to death, go down to take possession of his vineyard; they are met at the entrance by Elijah the Tishbite. R.A. See Sketches, Leighton House Collection.

"Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?"

1863. *Eucharis. (A Girl with a Basket of Fruit.) (32-1/2 22 inches.) R.A.

1863. A Girl Feeding Peac.o.c.ks. R.A. See Sketch, Leighton House Collection.

1863. An Italian Crossbowman. (51 24-1/2 inches.) R.A.

1864. Dante at Verona. R.A. See Sketches, Leighton House Collection.

1864. *Orpheus and Eurydice. (49 42 inches.) R.A. See Sketches, Leighton House Collection.

"But give them--the mouth, the eyes,--the brow-- Let them once more absorb me! One look now Will lap me round for ever, not to pa.s.s Out of its light, though darkness lie beyond!

Hold me but safe again within the bond Of one immortal look! All woe that was, Forgotten, and all terror that may be, Defied--no past is mine, no future! look at me!"

--ROBERT BROWNING: _A Fragment._

1864. *Golden Hours. (36 48 inches.) R.A. See Sketches in oil and chalk, Leighton House Collection.

1864. *Portrait of the late Miss Lavinia I'Anson. (Circular, 12-1/2 inches.)

1865. *David. (37 47 inches.) R.A. See Sketches, Leighton House Collection.

"Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest."--_Psalm_ lv.

1865. Mother and Child. R.A.

1865. Widow's Prayer. R.A.

1865. Helen of Troy. R.A.

"Thus as she spoke, in Helen's breast arose Fond recollections of her former lord, Her home, and parents; o'er her head she threw A snowy veil; and shedding tender tears She issued forth not unaccompanied; For with her went fair aethra, Pittheus' child, And stag-eyed Clymene, her maidens twain.

They quickly at the Scaean gate arrived."

1865. In St. Mark's. R.A.

1866. Painter's Honeymoon. R.A. See Sketch, Leighton House Collection.

1866. Portrait of Mrs. James Guthrie. R.A.

1866. Syracusan Bride leading wild beasts in procession to the Temple of Diana. (Suggested by a pa.s.sage in the second Idyll of Theocritus.) R.A. See Sketches, Leighton House Collection.

"And for her, then, many other wild beasts were going in procession round about, and among them a lioness."

1866. A n.o.ble Lady of Venice. (Not exhibited till 1897.)

1866. The Wise and Foolish Virgins. (Fresco in Lyndhurst Church, finished 1864.) See Sketches, Leighton House Collection.

1867. *Pastoral. (51-1/2 26 inches.) R.A. See Sketch, Leighton House Collection.

1867. *Greek Girl Dancing. (Spanish Dancing Girl; Cadiz in the old times.) (34 45 inches.) R.A.

1867. Knuckle-Bone Player. R.A.

1867. *Roman Mother. (24 19 inches.) R.A.

1867. *Venus disrobing for the Bath. (79 35-1/2 inches.) R.A.

1867. *Portrait of Mrs. John Hanson Walker. (18 16 inches.)

1868. Jonathan's Token to David. R.A.

"And it came to pa.s.s in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed by David, and a little lad with him."

1868. *Portrait of Mrs. Frederick P. c.o.c.kerell. (23-1/2 19-1/2 inches.) R.A.

1868. *Portrait of John Martineau, Esq. (23-1/2 19-1/2 inches.) R.A.

1868. *Ariadne abandoned by Theseus; Ariadne watches for his return; Artemis releases her by death. (45 62 inches.) R.A. See Sketches, Leighton House Collection.

1868. *Acme and Septimius. (Circular, 37-1/2 inches.) R.A.

"Then bending gently back her head With that sweet mouth, so rosy red, Upon his eyes she dropped a kiss, Intoxicating him with bliss."

--CATULLUS (Theodore Martin's translation).

1868. *Actaea, the Nymph of the Sh.o.r.e. (22 40 inches.) R.A. See Sketches, Leighton House Collection.

1869. *S. Jerome. (Diploma work, deposited in the Academy on his election as an Academician.) (72 55 inches.) R.A.

1869. *Daedalus and Icarus. (53-1/2 40-1/2 inches.) R.A. See Sketches, Leighton House Collection.

1869. *Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon. (59-1/2 29 inches.) R.A.

1869. *Helios and Rhodos. (65-1/2 42 inches) R.A. See Sketches, Leighton House Collection.