Edmund Leighton

Edmund Blair Leighton
Leighton in 1900
Born
Edmund Blair Leighton

(1852-09-21)21 September 1852
London, England
Died1 September 1922(1922-09-01) (aged 69)
London, England
NationalityBritish
Known forPainting

Edmund Blair Leighton ROI (21 September 1852 – 1 September 1922) was an English painter of historical genre scenes, specialising in Regency and medieval subjects. His art is associated with the pre-Raphaelite movement of the mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.