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Frederic Leighton

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Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was an English painter and sculptor. [1]

92 relations: Academic art, Academician, Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Aestheticism, Alexandra Orr, An Athlete Wrestling with a Python, Andromache, Angina, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Arthur Schopenhauer, Artists Rifles, Barony, Bible, Blue plaque, Captain (British Army and Royal Marines), Christchurch, Christchurch Art Gallery, Church Stretton, Cimabue, Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna, Classical antiquity, Commanding officer, Cornucopia (magazine), Cymon and Iphigenia (painting), Daedalus, Earl Shinn, Eduard von Steinle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Cemetery, Florence, Eugène Delacroix, Exposition Universelle (1900), Flaming June, Florence, Francis Grant (artist), Frederic Leighton, George Eliot, Giovanni Costa, Guard of honour, Henry William Greville, Hero and Leander, Hesperides, Holland Park, Icarus, Institut de France, Iphigenia, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-François Millet, John Everett Millais, ..., Kensington, Kimbell Art Museum, Knight Bachelor, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Leeds Art Gallery, Legion of Honour, Leighton baronets, Leighton Frescoes, Leighton House Museum, Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom), List of extant baronetcies, List of Orientalist artists, London, Manchester Art Gallery, Moses, Museo de Arte de Ponce, National Gallery of Canada, Neoclassicism, New Sculpture, North Riding of Yorkshire, Old Master, Orientalism, Peerage, Peerage of the United Kingdom, Perseus and Andromeda (Leighton), Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Princeton University Art Museum, Prix de Rome, Robert Browning, Romola, Royal Academy of Arts, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Smarthistory, St Mary Abbots, St Paul's Cathedral, Tate, The Painter's Honeymoon, The Right Honourable, University College School, Walker Art Gallery, Windsor, Berkshire, 1896 New Year Honours. Expand index (42 more) »

Academic art

Academic art, or academicism or academism, is a style of painting, sculpture, and architecture produced under the influence of European academies of art.

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Academician

An academician is a full member of an artistic, literary, or scientific academy.

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Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze

The Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze ("academy of fine arts of Florence") is an instructional art academy in Florence, in Tuscany, in central Italy.

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Aestheticism

Aestheticism (also the Aesthetic Movement) is an intellectual and art movement supporting the emphasis of aesthetic values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts.

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Alexandra Orr

Alexandra Orr or Alexandra Leighton; Alexander Sutherland Orr; Mrs Sutherland Orr (23 November, 1828 – 23 August, 1903) was an English biographer of Robert Browning.

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An Athlete Wrestling with a Python

An Athlete Wrestling with a Python was the first of three bronze sculptures produced by the British artist Frederic Leighton.

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Andromache

In Greek mythology, Andromache (Ἀνδρομάχη, Andromákhē) was the wife of Hector, daughter of Eetion, and sister to Podes.

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Angina

Angina, also known as angina pectoris, is chest pain or pressure, usually due to not enough blood flow to the heart muscle.

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Art Gallery of New South Wales

The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is the most important public gallery in Sydney and one of the largest in Australia.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher.

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Artists Rifles

The Artists Rifles is a regiment of the British Army Reserve.

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Barony

A modern geographic barony, in Scotland, Ireland and outlying parts of England, constitutes an administrative division of a country, usually of lower rank and importance than a county.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

Captain (Capt) is a junior officer rank of the British Army and Royal Marines and in both services it ranks above lieutenant and below major with a NATO ranking code of OF-2.

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Christchurch

Christchurch (Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region.

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Christchurch Art Gallery

The Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, commonly known as the Christchurch Art Gallery, is the public art gallery of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Church Stretton

Church Stretton is a small town in Shropshire, England, south of Shrewsbury and north of Ludlow.

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Cimabue

Cimabue (1240 – 1302),Vasari, G. Lives of the Artists.

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Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna

Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna, originally called Cimabue's Madonna Carried in Procession through the Streets of Florence, is an oil painting by English artist Frederic Leighton.

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Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is the period of cultural history between the 8th century BC and the 5th or 6th century AD centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world.

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Commanding officer

The commanding officer (CO) or, if the incumbent is a general officer, commanding general (CG), is the officer in command of a military unit.

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Cornucopia (magazine)

Cornucopia is a magazine about Turkish culture, art and history, published jointly in the United Kingdom and Turkey.

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Cymon and Iphigenia (painting)

Cymon and Iphigenia is an oil on canvas painting by Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton.

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Daedalus

In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Δαίδαλος Daidalos "cunningly wrought", perhaps related to δαιδάλλω "to work artfully"; Daedalus; Etruscan: Taitale) was a skillful craftsman and artist.

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Earl Shinn

Earl Shinn (November 8, 1838 – November 3, 1886) was an American art critic and art historian who often wrote under the pseudonym "Edward Strahan.".

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Eduard von Steinle

Eduard von Steinle (2 July 1810, in Vienna – 19 September 1886, in Frankfurt) was a historical painter and member of the Nazarene movement.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett,; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.

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English Cemetery, Florence

The English Cemetery in Florence, Italy is at Piazzale Donatello.

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Eugène Delacroix

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

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Exposition Universelle (1900)

The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next.

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Flaming June

Flaming June is a painting by Sir Frederic Leighton, produced in 1895.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Francis Grant (artist)

Sir Francis Grant PRA (18 January 1803 – 5 October 1878) was a Scottish portrait painter who painted Queen Victoria and many distinguished British aristocratic and political figures.

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Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was an English painter and sculptor.

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George Eliot

Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Ann" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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Giovanni Costa

Giovanni Costa (15 October 1826 – 31 January 1903), often known as Nino Costa, was an Italian landscape painter and patriotic revolutionary.

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Guard of honour

A guard of honour (en-GB), guard of honor (en-US), also honour guard (en-GB), honor guard (en-US), also ceremonial guard, is a guard, usually military in nature, appointed to receive or guard a head of state or other dignitary, the fallen in war, or to attend at state ceremonials, especially funerals.

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Henry William Greville

Henry William Greville (October 28, 1801 - December 12, 1872) was an English aristocrat and diarist.

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Hero and Leander

Hero and Leander is the Greek myth relating the story of Hero (Ἡρώ, Hērṓ; pron. like "hero" in English), a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont (today's Dardanelles), and Leander (Λέανδρος, Léandros), a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait.

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Hesperides

In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (Ἑσπερίδες) are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunset, who were the "Daughters of the Evening" or "Nymphs of the West".

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Holland Park

Holland Park is a district, the name of a street that unusually has three limbs and a public park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in west London.

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Icarus

In Greek mythology, Icarus (the Latin spelling, conventionally adopted in English; Ἴκαρος, Íkaros, Etruscan: Vikare) is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth.

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Institut de France

The Institut de France (Institute of France) is a French learned society, grouping five académies, the most famous of which is the Académie française.

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Iphigenia

In Greek mythology, Iphigenia (Ἰφιγένεια, Iphigeneia) was a daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and thus a princess of Mycenae.

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American artist, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom.

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter.

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching.

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Jean-François Millet

Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France.

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John Everett Millais

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

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Kensington

Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, West London, England.

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Kimbell Art Museum

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, hosts an art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions, educational programs and an extensive research library.

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Knight Bachelor

The dignity of Knight Bachelor is the most basic and lowest rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.

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Lady Lever Art Gallery

The Lady Lever Art Gallery is a museum founded and built by the industrialist and philanthropist William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and opened in 1922.

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Leeds Art Gallery

Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a museum whose collection of 20th-century British Art is recognised by the British government as a collection "of national importance".

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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Leighton baronets

There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Leighton, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

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Leighton Frescoes

The Leighton Frescoes were commissioned in 1868 as the central feature of the elaborate decorations of the Victoria and Albert Museum's South Court.

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Leighton House Museum

The Leighton House Museum is in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea in London.

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Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)

Lieutenant colonel (Lt Col), is a rank in the British Army and Royal Marines which is also used in many Commonwealth countries.

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List of extant baronetcies

Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy.

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List of Orientalist artists

This an incomplete list of artists who have produced works in an Orientalist style. Artists listed on this page may have worked across multiple genres, and it should not be assumed that all of their work is necessarily in the Orientalist genre.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre.

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Moses

Mosesמֹשֶׁה, Modern Tiberian ISO 259-3; ܡܘܫܐ Mūše; موسى; Mωϋσῆς was a prophet in the Abrahamic religions.

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Museo de Arte de Ponce

Museo de Arte de Ponce (MAP) is an art museum located on Avenida Las Américas in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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National Gallery of Canada

The National Gallery of Canada (Musée des beaux-arts du Canada), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's premier art gallery.

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Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism (from Greek νέος nèos, "new" and Latin classicus, "of the highest rank") is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity.

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New Sculpture

The New Sculpture was a movement in late 19th-century British sculpture.

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North Riding of Yorkshire

The North Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions (ridings) of the English county of Yorkshire, alongside the East and West Ridings.

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Old Master

Sleeping Venus'' (c. 1510), Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. In art history, "Old Master" (or "old master"), Christies.com.

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Orientalism

Orientalism is a term used by art historians and literary and cultural studies scholars for the imitation or depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian cultures (Eastern world).

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Peerage

A peerage is a legal system historically comprising hereditary titles in various countries, comprising various noble ranks.

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Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain.

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Perseus and Andromeda (Leighton)

Perseus and Andromeda is an oil painting by Lord Frederic Leighton.

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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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Princeton University Art Museum

The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) is the Princeton University's gallery of art, located in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Prix de Rome

The Prix de Rome or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France.

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Robert Browning

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

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Romola

Romola (1862–63) is a historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century, and is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view".

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Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London.

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Scarborough, North Yorkshire

Scarborough is a town on the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire, England.

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Smarthistory

Smarthistory is a free resource for the study of art history created by art historians Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

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St Mary Abbots

St Mary Abbots is a church located on Kensington High Street and the corner of Kensington Church Street in London W8.

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St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London.

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Tate

Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art.

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The Painter's Honeymoon

The Painter's Honeymoon is a painting by Lord Frederic Leighton, produced in c. 1864 and currently housed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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The Right Honourable

The Right Honourable (The Rt Hon. or Rt Hon.) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and to certain collective bodies in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, India, some other Commonwealth realms, the Anglophone Caribbean, Mauritius, and occasionally elsewhere.

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University College School

University College School, generally known as UCS Hampstead, is an independent day school in Frognal, northwest London, England.

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Walker Art Gallery

The Walker Art Gallery is an art gallery in Liverpool, which houses one of the largest art collections in England, outside London.

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Windsor, Berkshire

Windsor is a historic market town and unparished area in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England.

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1896 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1896 were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Leighton

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