Edmund Blair Leighton was an English painter of historical genre scenes, specialising in Regency and medieval subjects. His art is associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement of the mid-to-late ninete
Leighton in 1900
Abelard and His Pupil Heloise (1882)
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, later known as the Pre-Raphaelites, was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel
Edmund Blair Leighton
…1 September 1922) was an English painter of historical genre scenes, specialising in Regency and medieval subjects. His art is associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement of the mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, though his artwork is less stylised and much more naturalistic. Leighton was the son of…
William Holman Hunt, The Hireling Shepherd, 1851
Proserpine, 1874, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with Jane Morris as model
Ford Madox Brown, The Last of England depicting an emigrating couple, 1855
Christ in the House of His Parents, by John Everett Millais, 1850