A splendid collection of the late Lord Leighton's works has been got together for the winter exhibition of the Royal Acwdlemy. Including sketches and soulpture there are over three hundred exhibits, among which are nearly all the great painters best known works, from his Cimabue ug the theatre; besides which he has finding Giotto in the Fields of Florence," the fire at many other places besides painted in 1850, to "Flaming June," shown. at the Acade in 1895, and reproduced in colours asa supplement to the Christmas number of the Gruphic this season, Manchester Corporation lends the famous Capti Andromache and among the most interesting of the ex-President's earlier works is one lent by the Queen from Buckingham Palneo—* Cimabue's tied through Florence " " fine picture in which the influence of the Pre-Baphaelite brotherhood may be very clearly traced. It was-painted in 1855 and was the first picture which Leighton ever exhibited in public. At the New Gallery is to be seen a scarcely less representative collection of the works of Mr. G. F. Watts, R.A. There are in all a hundred and fifty-eight exhibits, and more than sixty of these, including nearly all the more ambitious works, are from Little Holland House Gallery—works destined by the painter for presentation to the nation.
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