Frederic Leighton – Sir? Lord? Baron?

by Matthew Innis |

Solitude (1890)72 X 36 in.oil on canvasIn his day, the artist Frederic, Lord Leighton, would not have been accustomed to being addressed by such a grand honorific as “Lord.”  Though born to a wealthy family with connections to royalty (his grandfather, Sir James, was the Court Physician in Russia, specifically attached to the service of Empress…

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