A spotlight tour of the exhibition Leighton and Landscape: Capri, with a particular focus on Leighton's most famous drawing.
Join noted art historian and lecturer Christopher Newall for a spotlight tour of Leighton and Landscape: Capri, with a particular focus on Leighton's most famous drawing, produced during his time on 'the island of his heart'.
Larger than many of his oil sketches, Study of a Lemon Tree, Capri (1859) registers botanical detail down to the shape of every leaf, as well as the effect of three-dimensionality through expertly applied shading. The cluster of seven small studies of a snail and its shell to the left conveys a sense of a spontaneous and informally executed exercise.
From the moment of its first exhibition at the Hogarth Club in London in 1859, this drawing was understood as an exceptional example of draughtsmanship. It remains one of the most celebrated drawings of the nineteenth century.
This talk is supported by the The Cosman Keller Art & Music Trust.
Meet Christopher Newall
Christopher Newall is an art historian, lecturer and writer. As well as being a specialist in 19th-century British art, he has a deep interest in Sicily, its architecture and political and social history. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute, he has organised various exhibitions including Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature (Tate Britain 2004) and John Ruskin: Artist & Observer at the National Gallery of Canada and Scottish National Portrait Gallery (2014).
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