Leighton
By A. L. Baldry
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Leighton - A. L. Baldry
A. L. Baldry
Leighton
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PLATE I.--"AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN IT."PLATE I.—AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN IT.
LEIGHTON
BY A. LYS BALDRY
ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT
REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR
LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK
NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.
1908
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Plate
I. And the Sea gave up the Dead which were in it.
(Rev. XX. 13) . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
At the Tate Gallery
II. The Syracusan Bride In the possession of F. B. Mildmay, Esq., M.P.
III. Gathering Citrons In the possession of F. B. Mildmay, Esq., M.P.
IV. Clytemnestra At Leighton House, Kensington
V. The Bath of Psyche At the Tate Gallery
VI. A Noble Lady of Venice In the possession of Lord Armstrong, Rothbary
VII. Elijah in the Wilderness At the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
VIII. Portrait of Sir Richard Burton At the National Portrait Gallery
LeightonIt is true that a definite connection can almost always be traced between the temperament of an artist and the work that he produces. One of the first things that must be taken into account in any study of his achievement is the manner of his training during the most impressionable years of his boyhood. Youthful associations and surroundings must obviously have a very real influence upon the direction in which any man develops in after life, and much of his later success or failure must depend upon the kind of cultivation that is given at the outset to his natural tastes and instinctive preferences. Everything which helps to define his personality, or to shape his character, has an actual bearing upon his ultimate efficiency as a producer, and counts for something in the building up of his scheme of active existence; the discipline of a judicious up-bringing puts his temperament under the control of his intelligence, and by pointing the way in which he can best apply his powers, saves him from wasting his energies in unprofitable experiment. He starts his career with a knowledge of himself, and with confidence in his personal qualifications for the