Friendship and Loss in the Victorian Portrait: May Sartoris by Frederic Leighton

by Malcolm Warner

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This original and eloquent study brings Frederic Leighton's portrait of May Sartoris to life as an expression of the artist's remarkable friendship with May's mother, celebrated opera singer Adelaide Sartoris. The young Leighton frequented Adelaide's artistic and literary salon in Rome in the early 1850s, and was on intimate terms with her by the time he painted her daughter's likeness in England around 1860. Malcolm...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300121350
• ISBN13: 9780300121353
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Kimbell Art Museum
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.6" x 9.2"