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LEIGHTON, FREDERICK LEIGHTON, BARON (1830-1896),English painter and sculptor, the son of a physician, waa born at Scarborough on the 3rd of December 1830. His grandfather, Sir James I~eighton, also a physician, was long resident at the court of St Petersburg. Frederick Leighton was taken abroad at a very early age. In 1840 he learnt drawing at Rome under Signor Mcli. The family moved to Dresden and Berlin, where he attended daises at the Academy. In 1843 he was sent to school at FrankfoP, and in the winter of 1844 accompanied his family to Florence, where his future career as an artist was decided. There he studied under Bezzuoli and Segnolini at the Accademia delle Belle Arti, and attended anatomy classes under Zanetti; but he soon returned to complete his general education at Frankfort, receiving no further direct instruction in art for five years. He went tn Brussels in 1848, where he met Wiertz and Gallait, and paintcd some pictures, including Cimabue finding Giotto, and a po~trait of himself. In 1849 he studied for a few months in Paris, where he copied Titian and CorreggiQ in the Louvre, and then retirned to Frankfort, where he settled down to serious art work- under Edward Steinle, whose pupil he declared he was in the fullest sense of the term. Though his artistic training was mainly German, and his master belonged to the same school as Cornelius and Overbeck, he loved Italian art and Italy and the first Dicture by which he became known to the British public was Cimabues Madonna carried in Procession through the.