James Mathews Leigh was an English art educator, painter, writer, dramatist and critic. He is best known as the founder of a popular private art school in London known as "Leigh's Academy", which eventually became the present day Heatherley School of Fine Art.
Portrait by Henry Stacy Marks
Grave of James Mathews Leigh in Highgate Cemetery
Philip Hermogenes Calderon
Philip Hermogenes Calderon was a British painter of French birth (mother) and Spanish (father) ancestry, who initially worked in the Pre-Raphaelite style before moving towards historical genre painting. He was Keeper of the Royal Academy in London.
Philip Hermogenes Calderon
Ruth, Boas and Naomi
Calderon by J. P. Mayall from Artists at Home, published 1884, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
Broken Vows (1856; Tate Britain, London).