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The Life, Letters and Work of
Frederic Baron Leighton
Of Stretton
VOL. I
"If any man should be constantly penetrated with a giftbestowed on him, it is the artist who has realised as hisshare a genuine love for nature; for his enjoyment, if heputs his gift to usury, increases with the days of his life."
"Every man who has received a gift, ought to feel and act asif he was a field in which a seed was planted that othersmight gather the harvest."
FREDERIC LEIGHTON.
August 1852.
The Life, Letters and
Work of
Frederic Leighton
BY
MRS. RUSSELL BARRINGTON
AUTHOR OF "REMINISCENCES OF G.F. WATTS," ETC. ETC.
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I
LONDON
GEORGE ALLEN, RUSKIN HOUSE
1906
[All rights reserved]
Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
At the Ballantyne Press
EARLY PORTRAIT OF LORD LEIGHTON
From the Painting by G.F. Watts (Photogravure)
By permission of the Hon. Lady Leighton-Warren and Sir Bryan Leighton,Bart.ToList