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Lindos, Rhodes
Frederic Leightoncirca 1867
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
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.
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Details
- Title: Lindos, Rhodes
- Creator: Lord Frederic Leighton
- Date Created: circa 1867
- Physical Dimensions: 25.7 x 45.4 cm stretcher; 43.6 x 62.8 x 6.0 cm frame
- Provenance: Monsignor Clarkson Christie's London, 02 Nov 1990, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from Christie's London, 2 November 1990, lot no. 287 'Property of a Gentleman'. Letter from AGNSW to be sent out to the vendor however Christie's computer records indicate that a previous letter sent out by them has been returned from the USA address that is on their system. Letter from AGNSW not sent.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: Purchased 1990
- Medium: oil sketch
- Signature & Date: Not signed. Not dated.
- Artist Country: England
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