HEN the reported on the Royal Academy (RA) Summer Exhibition of 1895, it singled out the figure paintings of RA president Sir Frederick Leighton—ennobled as Lord Leighton shortly before his death in January the following year—for particular praise. It marvelled at the ‘truth and beauty’ in and the ‘charm’ of . Who has heard of these paintings today? Of Leighton’s
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