At Auction: Edmund Blair Leighton in Sotheby’s Sale of British & Irish Art, London
by Matthew Innis |Sotheby’s upcoming London sale of British & Irish Art features several beautiful works, including samples from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and the Newlyn School.  The highlight of the sale – though not the highest evaluated piece – is Edmund Blair Leighton’s A King and a Beggar Maid (1898), representing the story of King Copheta and the…