Portrait of May Sartoris (Q21718911)

Label from: English (en)

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movement: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Q184814)
genre: portrait (Q134307)
artist: Frederic Leighton (Q160252)
collection: Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
location: Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID: FAGj59zhyE1AzQ

catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/portrait-may-sartoris

information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog

description: One of the leading artists of the tendency in British art known as the Aesthetic Movement, Frederic Leighton trained in the continental academic tradition in Germany, Italy, and France and insisted upon beauty and form as the artist’s primary concerns. He was elected president of the Royal Academy in 1878 and elevated to the peerage in 1896.

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