Frederic Lord Leighton, Late President of the Royal Academy of Arts;
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Like most speakers of any distinction, Lord Leighton left nothing to chance. In his speeches and Discourses, as in his pictures, the most careful and exact preparation was made for every effect, however appar- ently casual it. may have seemed. His Discourses were obviously based upon classic models; for their full periods, sonorously and deliberately arranged, have a rhythm that attends to the whole period, and not merely, as is often the way with English speakers, to each sen- tence in turn. I...n quoting from these Discourses, we do so, however, with an eye to his own proper art as a painter, and to his whole theory and sentiment of that art and its functions, and its allied plastic arts, even more than to his art as a Digitized by VjOOQlC 72 FREDERIC LEIGHTON speaker. Indeed, the Discourses form a unique contri- bution to the art criticism of our time ; they cover the most interesting and various periods in the history of the Art of Europe ; and although the cycle he had mapped, out was interrupted before he had completed it — first by illness which postponed the biennial discourse, and then by death — the portions already delivered touch incident- ally on the theory and philosophy of all Art in a highly suggestive and eloquent way.
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