Bookplate of Lord Leighton. Designed by R. Anning Bell.
APPENDIX I
List of Principal Works
With date and place of exhibition
| 1850 (circa). | *Cimabue finding Giotto in the Fields of Florence.[15] (49½ × 37 in.) | Steinle Institute (Frankfort). |
| 1850. | The Duel between Romeo and Tybalt. (37 × 50 in.) | |
| 1851 (circa). | The Death of Brunelleschi. | Steinle Institute. |
| 1851. | [Early Portrait of Leighton by himself.] | |
| 1852. | *A Persian Pedlar. | |
| " | [Buffalmacco, the Painter. A humorous subject, taken from Vasari, was undertaken about this date.] | |
| 1853. | Portrait of Miss Laing (Lady Nias). | |
| 1855. | *Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna is carried in procession through the streets of Florence. In front of the Madonna, and crowned with laurels, walks Cimabue himself, with his pupil Giotto; behind it, Arnolfo di Lapo, Gaddo Gaddi, Andrea Tafi, Nicola Pisano, Buffalmacco and Simone Memmi; in the corner, Dante. (87½ × 205 in.) | R.A.[16] |
| " | The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capuletsover the dead bodies of Romeo and Juliet. | Paris International Exhibition.[17] |
| 1856. | The Triumph of Music. (80 × 110 in.) "Orpheus, by the power of his art, redeems his wife from Hades." | R.A. |
| 1857. | *Salome, the daughter of Herodias. (44½ × 25 in.) | |
| 1858. | *The Mermaid (The Fisherman and the Syren). (From a ballad by Goethe.) (26½ × 18½ in.) | R.A. |
| "Half drew she him, Half sunk he in, And never more was seen." | ||
| " | "Count Paris, accompanied by Friar Lawrence and aband of musicians, comes to the house of the Capulets, to claim his bride: he finds Juliet stretched apparently lifeless on her bed."—Romeo and Juliet, act IV., sc. 5. (26½ × 18½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | Reminiscence of Algiers. | S.S. |
| These were, | ||
| [A Subject from Keats's Hymn to Pan,] in the first book of "Endymion," a figure of Pan under a fig-tree, with the inscription, "O thou, to whom Broad-leaved fig-trees even now foredoom Their ripen'd fruitage;" | ||
| and the other, | ||
| [A Pendant to the "Pan,">[ the figure of a nude nymph about to bathe, with a little Cupid loosening her sandal. | ||
| 1859. | Sunny Hours. | R.A. |
| " | *Roman Lady (La Nanna). | R.A. |
| " | *Nanna (Pavonia). | R.A. |
| " | Samson and Delilah. | S.S. |
| 1860. | Capri—Sunrise. | R.A. |
| 1861. | *Portrait of Mrs. Sutherland Orr. [Mrs. S. O., a portrait.] (28 × 18 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Portrait of John Hanson Walker, Esq. (23 × 17 in.) | |
| " | Paolo e Francesca. "Ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse Quando legemmo il disiato riso Esser baciato da cotanto amante, Questi, che mai da me non fia diviso, La bocca mi baciò tutto tremante: Galeotto fu'l libro e chi lo scrisse: Quel giorno più non vi legemmo avante." | R.A. |
| " | A Dream. ... "Not yet—not yet— Still there is trial for thee, still the lot To bear (the Father wills it) strife and care; With this sweet consciousness in balance set Against the world, to soothe thy suffering there Thy Lord rejects thee not. Such tender words awoke me hopeful, shriven To life on earth again from dream of heaven." | R.A. |
| " | Lieder ohne Worte. | R.A. |
| " | J. A. A Study. | R.A. |
| " | Capri—Paganos. | R.A. |
| 1862. | Odalisque. | R.A. |
| " | *The Star of Bethlehem. (60 × 23½ in.) One of the Magi, from the terrace of his house, stands looking at the star in the East; the lower part of the picture indicates a road, which he may be supposed just to have left. | R.A. |
| " | Sisters. | R.A. |
| " | *Michael Angelo Nursing His Dying Servant. (43 × 36 in.) | R.A. |
| " | Duett. | R.A. |
| " | Sea Echoes. | R.A. |
| " | Rustic Music. | |
| 1863. | Jezebel and Ahab, having caused Naboth to be put to death, go down to take possession of his vineyard;they are met at the entrance by Elijah the Tishbite: "Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?" | R.A. |
| " | *Eucharis. (A Girl with a Basket of Fruit.) (32½ × 22 in.) | R.A. |
| " | A Girl Feeding Peacocks. | R.A. |
| " | An Italian Crossbow-man. (15 × 24½ in.) | R.A. |
| 1864. | Dante at Verona. | R.A. |
| " | *Orpheus and Eurydice. (49 × 42 in.) "But give them me—the mouth, the eyes,—the brow— Let them once more absorb me! One look now Will lap me round for ever, not to pass Out of its light, though darkness lie beyond! Hold me but safe again within the bond Of one immortal look! All woe that was, Forgotten, and all terror that may be, Defied—no past is mine, no future! look at me!" Robert Browning: A Fragment. | R.A. |
| " | *Golden Hours. (36 × 48 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Portrait of the Late Miss Lavinia I'Anson. (Circular, 12½ in.) | |
| 1865. | *David. (37 × 47 in.) "Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away and be at rest." Psalm lv. | R.A. |
| " | Mother and Child. | R.A. |
| " | Widow's Prayer. | R.A. |
| " | Helen of Troy. "Thus as she spoke, in Helen's breast arose Fond recollections of her former lord, Her home, and parents; o'er her head she threw A snowy veil; and shedding tender tears She issued forth not unaccompanied; For with her went fair Æthra, Pittheus' child. And stag-eyed Clymene, her maidens twain. They quickly at the Scæan gate arrived." | R.A. |
| " | In St. Mark's. | R.A. |
| 1866. | Painter's Honeymoon. | R.A. |
| " | Portrait of Mrs. James Guthrie. | R.A. |
| " | Syracusan Bride Leading Wild Beasts in Procession to the Temple of Diana. (Suggested by a passage in the second Idyll of Theocritus.) "And for her, then, many other wild beasts were going in procession round about, and among them a lioness." | R.A. |
| " | The Wise and Foolish Virgins. (Fresco in Lyndhurst Church.) | |
| 1867. | *Pastoral. (51½ × 26 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Greek Girl Dancing. (Spanish Dancing Girl: Cadiz in the old times.) (34 × 45 in.) | R.A. |
| " | Knuckle-bone Player. | R.A. |
| " | *Roman Mother. (24 × 19 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Venus Disrobing for the Bath. (79 × 35½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Portrait of Mrs. John Hanson Walker. (18 × 16 in.) | |
| 1868. | Jonathan's Token To David. "And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed by David, and a little lad with him." | R.A. |
| " | *Portrait of Mrs. Frederick P. Cockerell. (23½ × 19½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Portrait of John Martineau, Esq. (23½ × 19½ in.) | |
| " | *Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus; Ariadne watches for his return; Artemis releases her by death. (45 × 62 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Acme and Septimius. (Circular, 37½ in.) "Then bending gently back her head With that sweet mouth, so rosy red, Upon his eyes she dropped a kiss, Intoxicating him with bliss." Catullus (Theodore Martin's translation). | R.A. |
| " | *Actæa, the Nymph of the Shore. (22 × 40 in.) | R.A. |
| 1869. | *St. Jerome. (Diploma work, deposited in the Academy on his election as an Academician.) (72 × 55 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Dædalus and Icarus. (53½ × 40½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon. (59½ × 29 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Helios and Rhodos. (65½ × 42 in.) | R.A. |
| 1870. | A Nile Woman. (21½ × 11½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | Study. | S.S. |
| 1871. | *Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestis. (54 × 104½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | Greek Girls Picking up Pebbles by the Shore of the Sea. | R.A. |
| " | *Cleoboulos instructing his daughter Cleobouline. (24 × 37½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | View of Assiout(?) (A sketch.) | S.S. |
| " | Sunrise at Longsor. (A sketch.) | S.S. |
| " | View of the Red Mountains near Cairo. (A sketch.) | S.S. |
| 1872. | *After Vespers. (43 × 27½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Summer Moon. (Guildhall, 1890.) (39½ × 50½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | Portrait of the Right Hon. Edward Ryan, Secretary of the Dilettanti Society, for which the picture was painted. (S.P.P., 1893.) | R.A. |
| " | A Condottiere. | R.A. |
| " | *The Industrial Arts of War at the International Exhibition at South Kensington. (Monochrome, 76 × 177 in.) | |
| " | The Captive. | S.S. |
| " | An Arab Café, Algiers. | S.S. |
| 1873. | *Weaving the Wreath. (Guildhall, 1895.) | R.A. |
| " | Moretta. (Guildhall, 1894.) (20½ × 14½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | *The Industrial Arts of Peace. (Monochrome, 76 × 177 in.) | R.A. |
| " | A Roman. | S.S. |
| " | Vittoria. | S.S. |
| 1874. | *Moorish Garden: a dream of Granada. (41 × 40 in.) (Guildhall, 1895.) | R.A. |
| " | Old Damascus: Jews' Quarter. | R.A. |
| " | *Antique Juggling Girl. (Guildhall, 1892.) (41½ × 24 in.) | R.A. |
| " | Clytemnestra from the battlements of Argos watches for the beacon fires which are to announce the return of Agamemnon. | R.A. |
| " | Annarella, Ana Capri. | D.G. |
| " | Rubinella, Capri. | D.G. |
| " | Lemon Tree, Capri. | D.G. |
| " | West Court of Palazzo, Venice. | D.G. |
| 1875. | *Portion of the Interior of the Grand Mosque Of Damascus. (62 × 47 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Portrait of Mrs. H. E. Gordon (35½ × 37 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Little Fatima. (15½ × 9¼ in.) | R.A. |
| " | Venetian Girl. | R.A. |
| " | *Egyptian Slinger. (Eastern Slinger Scaring Birds in Harvest-time: Moonrise.) (Guildhall, 1890.) | R.A. |
| " | Florentine Youth. | S.S. |
| " | Ruined Mosque in Damascus. | S.S. |
| 1876. | *Portrait of Sir Richard Francis Burton, K.C.M.G. (Portrait of Capt. Richard Burton, H.M. Consul at Trieste). (23½ × 19½ in.) (Paris, 1878; Melbourne, 1888; S.P.P., 1892.) | R.A. |
| " | *The Daphnephoria. (89 × 204 in.) A triumphal procession held every ninth year at Thebes, in honour of Apollo and to commemorate a victory of the Thebans over the Æolians of Arne. (See Proclus, "Chrestomath," p. 11.) | R.A. |
| " | Teresina. | R.A. |
| " | Paolo. | R.A. |
| 1877. | *Music Lesson. (36½ × 37⅛ in.) (Paris, 1878.) | R.A. |
| " | *Portrait of Miss Mabel Mills (The Hon. Mrs. Grenfell). (23 × 19 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *An Athlete strangling a Python.[18] Bronze. (Paris, 1878.) | R.A. |
| " | *Portrait of H. E. Gordon. (23½ × 19 in.) | G.G. |
| " | An Italian Girl. | G.G. |
| " | *Study. (A little girl with fair hair, in a pink robe.) (24 × 28 in.) | R.A. |
| " | A Study. | G.G. |
| 1878. | *Nausicaa. (57½ × 25½ in.) (Guildhall, 1896.) | R.A. |
| " | Serafina. | R.A. |
| " | *Winding the Skein. (39½ × 63½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | A Study. | R.A. |
| " | *Portrait of Miss Ruth Stewart Hodgson. (50½ × 35½ in.) | G.G. |
| " | Study of a Girl's Head. | G.G. |
| " | Sierra: Elviza in the distance, Granada. | S.S. |
| " | The Sierra Alhama, Granada. | S.S. |
| 1879. | Biondina. | R.A. |
| " | Catarina. | R.A. |
| " | *Elijah in the Wilderness. (91 × 81½ in.) (Paris, 1878.) | R.A. |
| " | Portrait of Signor G. Costa. | R.A. |
| " | Amarilla. | R.A. |
| " | A Study. | R.A. |
| " | Portrait of the Countess Brownlow. | R.A. |
| " | *Neruccia. (19 × 16 in.) | R.A. |
| " | A Study. | S.S. |
| " | The Carraca Hills. | S.S. |
| " | A Street in Lerici. | S.S. |
| " | Via Bianca, Capri. | G.G. |
| " | Archway in Algiers. | G.G. |
| " | Ruins of a Mosque, Damascus. | G.G. |
| " | Study of a Donkey. | G.G. |
| " | On the Terrace, Capri. | G.G. |
| " | Sketch Near Damascus. | G.G. |
| " | View in Granada. | G.G. |
| " | Study of a Donkey, Egypt. | G.G. |
| " | Study of a Head. | G.G. |
| " | Nicandra. | G.G. |
| 1880. | *Sister's Kiss. (48 × 21½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Iostephane. (37 × 19 in.) | R.A. |
| " | The Light of the Harem. (60 × 33 in.) | R.A. |
| " | Psamathe. (36 × 24 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *The Nymph of the Dargle (Crenaia). (29½ × 10 in.) | R.A. |
| " | Rubinella. | G.G. |
| " | The Pozzo Corner, Venice. Winter Exhibition. | G.G. |
| " | Jack and his Cider Can. Winter Exhibition. | G.G. |
| " | The Painter's Honeymoon. Winter Exhibition. | G.G. |
| " | Winding of the Skein (with sketch). Winter Exhibition. | G.G. |
| " | Head of Urbino. Winter Exhibition. | G.G. |
| " | Steps of the Bargello, Florence. Winter Exhibition. | G.G. |
| " | A Contrast. Winter Exhibition. | G.G. |
| " | Garden at Capri. Winter Exhibition. | G.G. |
| " | Twenty-Nine Studies of Heads, Flowers, and Draperies. Winter Exhibition. | G.G. |
| 1881. | Elisha Raising the Son of the Shunamite. (32 × 54 in.) (Guildhall, 1895.) | R.A. |
| " | Portrait of the Painter.[19] | R.A. |
| " | *Idyll. (41½ × 84 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Portrait of Mrs. Stephen Ralli. (48 × 33 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Whispers. (48 × 30 in.) | R.A. |
| " | Viola. | R.A. |
| " | *Bianca. (18 × 12½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | Portrait of Mrs. Algernon Sartoris. | G.G. |
| 1882. | *Day-dreams. (47½ × 35½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | Wedded. | R.A. |
| " | Phryne at Eleusis. (86 × 48 in.) (Melbourne, 1888.) | R.A. |
| " | Antigone. R.A. | |
| " | "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it." Rev. xx. 13. (Design for a portion of a decoration in St. Paul's.) | R.A. |
| " | Melittion. | R.A. |
| " | *Portrait of Mrs. Mocatta. (23½ × 19½ in.) | |
| " | Zeyra. | G.G. |
| 1883. | The Dance: decorative frieze for a drawing-room in a private house. | R.A. |
| " | *Vestal. (24½ × 17 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Kittens. (48 × 31½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | Memories. | R.A. |
| " | *Portrait of Miss Nina Joachim. (16 × 13 in.) | |
| 1884. | *Letty. (18 × 15½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Cymon and Iphigenia. (64 × 129 in.) | R.A. |
| " | A Nap. | R.A. |
| " | Sun Gleams. | R.A. |
| 1885. | "... Serenely wandering in a trance Of sober Thought." (46 × 27 in.) | R.A. |
| " | Portrait of the Lady Sybil Primrose. | R.A. |
| " | *Portrait of Mrs. A. Hichens. (26½ × 20½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | Music: a frieze. | R.A. |
| " | Phœbe. (Manchester, 1887.) | R.A. |
| " | A Study. | G.G. |
| " | Tombs of Muslim Saints. | S.S. |
| " | Mountains near Ronda Puerta de los Vientos. | S.S. |
| 1886. | Painted Decoration for the Ceiling of a Music-room.[20] (7 ft. × 20 ft.) | R.A. |
| " | Gulnihal. | R.A. |
| " | *The Sluggard. Statue, bronze. | R.A. |
| " | *Needless Alarms. Statuette. | R.A. |
| 1887. | *The Jealousy of Simætha, the Sorceress. (35½ × 55½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | *The Last Watch of Hero. (62½ × 35½ in., with predella 12½ × 29½ in.) "With aching heart she scanned the sea-face dim. ···· Lo! at the turret's foot his body lay, Rolled on the stones, and washed with breaking spray." Hero and Leander: Musæus (translated by Edwin Arnold). | R.A. |
| " | [Picture of A Little Girl with golden hair and pale blue eyes.] "Yellow and pale as ripened corn Which Autumn's kiss frees—grain from sheath— Such was her hair, while her eyes beneath, Showed Spring's faint violets freshly born." Robert Browning. | |
| " | *Design for the reverse of the Jubilee Medallion. (Executed for Her Majesty's Government.) Empire, enthroned in the centre, rests her right hand on the sword of Justice, and holds in her left the symbol of victorious rule. At her feet, on one side, Commerce proffers wealth, on the other a winged figure holds emblems of Electricity and Steam-power. Flanking the throne to the right of the spectator are Agriculture and Industry—on the opposite side, Science, Literature, and the Arts. Above, interlocking wreaths, held by winged genii representing respectively the years 1837 and 1887, inclose the initials, V.R.I. | R.A. |
| 1888. | *Captive Andromache. (77 × 160 in.) ".... Some standing by, Marking thy tears fall, shall say, 'This is she, The wife of that same Hector that fought best Of all the Trojans, when all fought for Troy.'" Iliad, VI. (E. B. Browning's translation.) | R.A. |
| " | *Portrait of Amy, Lady Coleridge. (42 × 39½ in.) (S.P.P., 1891.) | R.A. |
| " | *Portraits of the Misses Stewart Hodgson. (47 × 39½ in.) | |
| " | Four Studies. | R.W.S. |
| " | Five Studies. | S.S. |
| 1889. | *Sibyl. (59 × 34 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Invocation. (54 × 33½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | Elegy. | R.A. |
| " | Greek Girls playing at Ball. (45 × 78 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Portrait of Mrs. Francis A. Lucas. (23½ × 19½ in.) | R.A. |
| 1890. | Solitude. | R.A. |
| " | *The Bath of Psyche.[21] (75 × 24½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Tragic Poetess. (63 × 34 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *The Arab Hall. (33 × 16 in.) (Guildhall, 1890.) | R.A. |
| 1891. | *Perseus and Andromeda. (91½ × 50 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Portrait of A. B. Freeman-Mitford, Esq., C.B. (46½ × 38½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Return of Persephone. (79 × 59½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | Athlete Struggling with a Python—group, marble. | R.A. |
| 1892. | *"And the sea gave up the dead which were in it." (Circular, 93 in.) | R.A. |
| " | At the Fountain. (49 × 37 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *The Garden of the Hesperides. (Circular, 66 in.) (Chicago, 1893; Guildhall, 1895.) | R.A. |
| " | Bacchante. | R.A. |
| " | *Clytie. (32½ × 53½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | Phryne at the Bath. (24 × 12 in.) | S.S. |
| " | Malin Head, Donegal. | S.S. |
| " | St. Mark's, Venice. | S.S. |
| " | Interior of St. Mark's, Venice. | S.S. |
| " | The Doorway, North Aisle, Venice. | S.S. |
| " | Rizpah (the small study in oils). (7 × 7 in.) | S.S. |
| 1893. | *Farewell! (63 × 26½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Hit! (29 × 22 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Atalanta. (26½ × 19 in.) | R.A. |
| " | Rizpah. (36 × 52 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Corinna of Tanagra. (47½ × 21 in.) | R.A. |
| " | The Frigidarium. | R.A. |
| 1894. | *The Spirit of the Summit. (77½ × 39½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | *The Bracelet. (59½ × 23 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Fatidica. (59½ × 23 in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Summer Slumber. (45½ × 62 in.) | R.A. |
| " | At the Window. | R.A. |
| " | Wide Wondering Eyes. (20 × 15½ in.) | Manchester. |
| " | The Roman Campagna, Monte Soracte in the Distance. | S.S. |
| " | The Acropolis of Lindos. | S.S. |
| " | Fiume Morto, Gombo, Pisa. | S.S. |
| " | Gibraltar from San Rocque. | S.S. |
| 1895. | Lachrymæ. (60 × 24 in.) | R.A. |
| " | The Maid with the Yellow Hair. | R.A. |
| " | *"'Twixt Hope and Fear." (43½ × 38½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | *Flaming June. (46 × 46 in.) | R.A. |
| " | Listener. | R.A. |
| " | A Study. | R.A. |
| " | Phœnicians Bartering With Britons. | Royal Exchange. |
| " | Boy with Pomegranate. | Grafton Gallery. |
| " | Miss Dene. | |
| " | Aqua Certosa, Rome. | S.S. |
| " | Chain of Hills seen from Ronda. | S.S. |
| " | Rocks, Malin Head, Donegal. | S.S. |
| " | Tlemçen, Algeria. | S.S. |
| 1896. | *Clytie. (61½ × 53½ in.) | R.A. |
| " | Candida. (21 × 41½ in.) | Antwerp, 1896. |
| " | *The Vestal. (27 × 20½ in.) Unfinished. | |
| " | *A Bacchante. (26½ × 21 in.) | |
| " | *The Fair Persian. (25½ × 19½ in.) Unfinished. |
