Romanticism and Pre-Raphaelitism. Artist Edmund Blair Leighton (91 works)

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Edmund Blair Leighton (21 September 1853 – 1 September 1922) was an English artist who painted in the Romantic and Pre-Raphaelitist styles.

Leighton was the son of the artist Charles Blair Leighton. He studied at University College School and then at the Royal Academy of Arts School. Leighton married Catherine Nash in 1885 and had a son and a daughter. He exhibited his work annually at the Royal Academy from 1878 to 1920.

Leighton was a sophisticated artist, creating elaborate, decorative paintings. He left no diaries and, although he exhibited at the Academy for more than forty years, he was never a member or supporter of it.

Leighton wrote in the historical genre, preferring themes of the Middle Ages and the Regency era.