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The visit had been unplanned, but it made a notable impression on young Leighton. His first exposure to professional painting happened in 1839, when he visited the studio of artist George Lance while the family was staying in Paris. These demonstrations of his talent convinced Leighton's parents of giving him a chance at an art education. At the age of nine, under similar circumstances, when he sketched copies of two of his father's own paintings. Leighton's artistic gifts became evident as early as the age of five, when he took up a pencil and paper and began drawing various household objects and pets while bedridden from a severe illness. Leighton's father thus inherited a great deal of wealth and subsequently retired, perhaps due to his wife's declining health, deciding to focus instead on his family. Leighton's family had longstanding connections to the Russian monarchy through his grandfather, who had been court physician to both Czar Alexander I and, briefly, Czar Nicholas I. He eventually rose to the position of President of the Royal Academy of Art, which he used to promote an artistic renaissance in Great Britain.įrederic Leighton was born on 3 December, 1830, in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, into the family of a wealthy doctor, Frederic Septimus Leighton. An incredibly prolific painter, he left behind hundreds of works and, defying critics, established new fashions in the art of the time. Though the scion of a wealthy family, his considerable talent caused him to pursue the rather unfashionable calling of fine art.

Frederic Leighton was a British painter of the late 19th Century, and one of the pre-eminent artists of the Victorian period.