Museum number
2014.3
Object
Chalk and wash drawing: The Head of my Son by James Mathews Leigh (1806-1860). Framed and glazed.
Description
James Mathews Leigh was the founder of a popular private art school in London called Leigh's Academy (Frederic Leighton and Edwin Long both received their early training there). This later became Heatherly School of Fine Art. Students included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frank O. Salisbury, Walter Sickert and Dorothy Burroughes. His son, Henry Sambrooke Leigh, who is portrayed in the drawing was a writer and playwright. Leigh himself was a student of William Etty and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1830 with Joseph presenting his Brethren to Pharaoh and Jephthah's Vow.
On display?
No

Further description

Simple name
drawing

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