CHAPTER I[ToC]
FIRST STUDIO IN LONDON
1859-1863
In 1858 Leighton was represented on the Royal Academy walls by two pictures, "The Fisherman and the Syren"—a subject from Goethe's ballad,
"Half drew she him,
Half sunk he in,
And never more was seen"—
and by a scene from "Romeo and Juliet," both small canvases painted in Rome and in Paris.[8]
Leighton at this time received an encouraging letter from Robert Fleury, from whom he had learned much:—