RLY PORTRAIT OF LEIGHTON BY HIMSELF.]
1852. *A PERSIAN PEDLAR.
" [BUFFALMACCO, THE PAINTER. A humorous subject, taken from Vasari,
was undertaken about this date.]
1853. PORTRAIT OF MISS LAING (Lady Nias).
1855. *CIMABUE'S CELEBRATED MADONNA IS CARRIED IN PROCESSION THROUGH
THE STREETS OF FLORENCE. In front of the Madonna, and crowned with
laurels, walks Cimabue himself, with his pupil Giotto; behind it,
Arnolfo di Lapo, Gaddo Gaddi, Andrea Tafi, Nicola Pisano,
Buffalmacco and Simone Memmi; in the corner, Dante.
(87-1/2 x 205 in.) R.A.[16]
" THE RECONCILIATION OF THE MONTAGUES AND CAPULETS over the dead
bodies of Romeo and Juliet. Paris International Exhibition.[17]
1856. THE TRIUMPH OF MUSIC. (80 x 110 in.) R.A.
"Orpheus, by the power of his art, redeems his wife from Hades."
1857. *SALOME, the daughter of Herodias. (44-1/2 x 25 in.)
1858. *THE MERMAID (THE FISHERMAN AND THE SYREN).
(From a ballad by Goethe.) (26-1/2 x 18-1/2 in.) R.A.
"Half drew she him,
Half sunk he in,
And never more was seen."
" "COUNT PARIS, accompanied by Friar Lawrence and a band of
musicians, comes to the house of the Capulets, to claim his
bride: he finds Juliet stretched apparently lifeless on her
bed."--_Romeo and Juliet_, act IV., sc. 5. (26-1/2 x 18-1/2 in.) R.A.
" REMINISCENCE OF ALGIERS. S.S.
_These were_,
[A SUBJECT FROM KEATS'S HYMN TO PAN,] _in the first book of
"Endymion," a figure of Pan under a fig-tree, with the
inscription_,
"_O thou, to whom
Broad-leaved fig-trees even now foredoom
Their ripen'd fruitage;_"
_and the other_,
[A PENDANT TO THE "PAN,"] _the figure of a nude nymph about
to bathe, with a little Cupid loosening her sandal._
1859. SUNNY HOURS. R.A.
" *ROMAN LADY (La Nanna). R.A.
" *NANNA (Pavonia). R.A.
" SAMSON AND DELILAH. S.S.
1860. CAPRI--SUNRISE. R.A.
1861. *PO
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