Lindos, Rhodes

In 1867 Leighton made a trip to Asia Minor returning through Greece, where he visited Rhodes before staying in Athens to study the Acropolis. Throughout his trip he made plein-air landscape sketches. Some of these were used for the landscape backgrounds of his later works (see Winding the Skein, above). Leighton’s pleinair sketches have an immediacy which recalls the work of Corot, an artist whom Leighton greatly admired.