THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS OF PEACE. (From the fresco at South Kensington Museum) 64 CUPID. (From a fresco) 66 PHOENICIANS BARTERING WITH BRITONS. (Panel in the Royal Exchange) 66 VI. SCULPTURE. AN ATHLETE STRUGGLING WITH A PYTHON. (Bronze statue, from two points of view) 68 STUDY IN CLAY FOR "CYMON" 68 STUDY IN CLAY FOR "THE SLUGGARD" 68 STUDY IN CLAY FOR "PERSEUS" 68 STUDY IN CLAY FOR "ANDROMEDA" 68 DESIGN FOR REVERSE OF THE JUBILEE MEDALLION (1887) 130 VII. LORD LEIGHTON'S HOUSE. IN THE INNER HALL. (From a photograph taken specially by Mr. James Hyatt) 88 IN THE ARAB HALL. (From a photograph by Messrs. Bedford, Lemere, and Co.) 96 BOOKPLATE OF LORD LEIGHTON. (Designed by R. Anning Bell) 120 _With four exceptions all the reproductions are by the Swan Electric Engraving Company._ FREDERIC LORD LEIGHTON, P.R.A. LIST OF DIGNITIES AND HONOURS CONFERRED ON FREDERIC LEIGHTON. Knighted, 1878; created a Baronet, 1886; created Baron Leighton of Stretton, 1896; elected Associate of the Royal Academy, 1864; Royal Academician, 1869; President of the Royal Academy, 1878; Hon. Mem. Royal Scottish Academy, and Royal Hibernian Academy, Associate of the Institute of France, President of the International Jury of Painting, Paris Exhibition, 1878; Hon. Member, Berlin Academy, 1886; also Member of the Royal Academy of Vienna, 1888, Belgium, 1886, of the Academy of St. Luke, Rome, and the Academies of Florence (1882), Turin, Genoa, Perugia, and Antwerp (1885); Hon. D.C.L., Oxford, 1879; Hon. LL.D., Cambridge, 1879; Hon. LL.D., Edinburgh, 1884; Hon. D.Lit., Dublin, 1892; Hon. D.C.L., Durham, 1894; Hon. Fellow of Trinity College, London, 1876; Lieut.-Colonel of the 20th Middlesex (Artists') Rifle Volunteers, 1876 to 1883 (resigned); then Hon. Colonel and holder of the Volunteer Decoration; Commander of the Legion of Honour, 1889; Commander of the Order of Leopold; Knight of the Prussian Order "pour le Mérite," and of the Coburg Order Dem Verdienste. [Illustration: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST (1881) _Painted for the Uffizi Gallery_] FREDERIC LORD LEIGHTON, P.R.A. AN ILLUSTRATED CHRONICLE CHAPTER I HIS EARLY YEARS