Edmund Blair Leighton

1852–1922 · Symbolism

Edmund Blair Leighton was an English painter of historical genre scenes, specialising in Regency and medieval subjects. His art is associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement of the mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, though his artwork is less stylised and much more naturalistic.

37 paintings

• Cut off with a Shilling (1885)
• The Secret (1885)
• Pelleas and Melisande (1910)
• Hales Old Hall, Hales Green, near Norwich, Norfolk (1913)
• The Wedding Register (1920)
• Farewell (1922)
• The Confessional (1886)
• A call to arms (1888)
• The Shadow
• The Hostage (1912)
• Faded Laurels (1889)
• Conquest (1884)
• Alain Chartier (painting) (1903)
• The End of the Song (1902)
• The Accolade
• The Love Letter (1915)
• Interesting strangers (1881)
• In Time of Peril (study)
• Maternity (1917)
• My Next-Door Neighbour (1894)
• The Ferry (1921)
• The Golden Train (1891)
• The Keys (1909)
• The Request (1909)
• The New Governess (1894)
• The Trysting Place (1901)
• The window seat (1905)
• Till Death Us Do Part (1878)
• Tristram and Isolde
• Yes or No? (1890)
• Stitching the Standard (1911)
• God Speed (1900)
• In Time of Peril (1897)
• The Accolade (1901)
• How Liza Loved the King (1890)
• Abelard and his Pupil Heloise (1882)
• The Glance that Enchants (1902)