An Athlete Wrestling with a Python was the first of three bronze sculptures produced by the British artist Frederic Leighton. Completed in 1877, the sculpture was a departure for Leighton, and heralde
Bronze at Tate Britain
Leighton, Daphnephoria, 1876, Lady Lever Art Gallery
Leighton, Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestis, 1871, Wadsworth Atheneum
Laocoön and His Sons, Vatican
Leighton House
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Leighton House is an historic house in the Holland Park area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London. The building was the home of wealthy Victorian painter, and President of the
An Athlete Wrestling with a Python
…cast in two sizes by Ernest Brown and Phillips at the Leicester Galleries between 1903 and 1910. A 52 centimetres (20 in) bronze was acquired by the Leighton House Museum in 2005, part funded with a grant from the Art Fund. The museum also has a plaster model of the python which Leighton presented to George Frederic Watts…
View of the house from Holland Park Road
The Drawing Room
Ceiling of the Arab Hall
The End of the Quest (1921) by Frank Bernard Dicksee