Edmund Blair Leighton worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Edmund Blair Leighton as British Romantic painter (1852-1922).
Edmund Blair Leighton was born at London in 1852. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at Royal Academy of Arts and Heatherley School of Fine Art.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter.
His recorded movement is pre-raphaelite brotherhood.
His best-known work is Lady Godiva. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in United Kingdom shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Edmund Blair Leighton died in 1922, aged 70. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Lady Godiva
- Movement: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
