Leighton and the Venetian Method, Part IV
by Matthew Innis |From top to bottom:Constant TroyonCharles DaubignyJean-François MilletJean-Baptiste-Camille CorotBut Leighton did not limit his interactions in France to just the academic history painters;  while there, he also sought out the company of landscape painters whose modern approach to the subject matched his own advanced perspective.  Numbered amongst his friends were those artists whose colors, brushwork, and devotion…