Charles Blair Leighton (6 March 1823 – 6 February 1855) was an English painter. He was the father of painter

Edmund Blair Leighton Edmund Blair Leighton (21 September 18521 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 an ...

(1853–1922).Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 33, by Lionel Henry Cust

Biography

Charles Leighton was born to Stephen Leighton and Helen Blair. He was apprenticed to a silver-engraver between ages 14–21 but abandoned engraving and became a student of the Royal Academy. He painted portraits and figure-pieces, and was an occasional exhibitor at the Royal Academy. He married Caroline Boosey, daughter of music publisher Thomas Boosey, in April 1849 and they had two daughters and a son (the painter

). He died on 6 February 1855, aged 31.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Leighton, Charles Blair 1823 births 1855 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century English male artists