Excerpt from Lord Leighton of Stretton
Frederick Leighton was the High Priest of the cult of Eclectic Beauty: he was also the most significant of all the Makers of British Art.
From whatever point of view we behold him - whether as Draughtsman, Colourist, Modeller, Orator, or Leader of men, he was head and shoulders above his contemporaries, and this they admitted themselves. It was a trite saying in the Studios: "No one can do like Leighton!"
There is nothing in his art which is not superlatively beautiful: it is "signed all over," as he was wont to say of characteristic work of distinguished men. Well might he, too, have said, with the great Leonardo, when the Gonfaloniere di Giustizia, Piero Soderini, wished to pay his salary in weekly instalments: "I am no penny-painter!"
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