''Winding the Skein'' is an
oil painting
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of ...
by
Frederic Leighton
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subjec ...
, first exhibited in 1878.
Description
Two canvases by Leighton were hung at the Royal Academy in 1878, the year of his enthronement as President: ''Winding the Skein'' and
''Nausicaa''.
[Staley 1906, p. 112.][Rhys 1900, p. 37.] Edgcumbe Staley gives the following description of the first picture:
Analysis
In this picture, a simple theme is treated in a classic fashion—not dissimilar to that employed for the earlier ''
Music Lesson
Music lessons are a type of formal instruction in playing a musical instrument or singing. Typically, a student taking music lessons meets a music teacher for one-to-one training sessions ranging from 30 minutes to one hour in length over a pe ...
''.
Ernest Rhys
Ernest Percival Rhys ( ; 17 July 1859 – 25 May 1946) was a Welsh-English writer, best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics. He wrote essays, stories, poetry, novels and plays.
Early life
...
writes in praise of this perceived quality in Leighton:
See also
*
Greeks in Syria
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References
Sources
* Ash, Russell (1995). ''
Lord Leighton
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subje ...
''. London: Pavilion Books Limited. p. 55
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* Jones, Stephen, ''et al''. (1996). ''
Frederic Leighton, 1830–1896''. Royal Academy of Arts, London: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. pp. 52, 179, 185, 186, 206.
* Rhys, Ernest (1900). ''
Frederic Lord Leighton: An Illustrated Record of his Life and Work''. London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 37, 111, 126.
* Staley, Edgcumbe (1906). ''
Lord Leighton of Stretton''. London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 112, 217.
* Trumble, Angus (4 December 2005)
"Winding the skein" ''
The Victorian Web
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''. Accessed 2 July 2022.
"Winding the skein, circa 1878 by Lord Frederic Leighton" ''Art Gallery of NSW''. Accessed 2 July 2022.
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1878 paintings
Paintings by Frederic Leighton