Needless Alarms
Statuette
11/11/1897 (made), 1897 (made)
11/11/1897 (made), 1897 (made)
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This bronze statuette is made after a model by Frederic Lord Leighton and published by Arthur Leslie Collie in 1897.
It represents a nude figure of a young girl standing upon a circular wooden base and looking over her shoulder at a frog. The present composition, is primarily a study of the human figure. The publisher Arthur Leslie Collie, produced relatively inexpensive bronze statuettes by leading contemporary sculptors from 1890 up until 1901, when his business failed mainly due to French competition.
Frederic Leighton (1830-96) was born in Scarborough in 1830, the son of a physician. After receiving an all round education, he studied art at Frankfurt under Steinle, and at Brussels, Paris and Rome. In 1852 he began to work independently and spent the next three years in Rome. Leighton's painting Cimabue's Madonna carried through Florence (1853-55) was his first major work, and an immediate success. When it was shown at the Royal Academy in 1855, it was bought by Queen Victoria. Leighton settled in London in 1859, though he frequently travelled abroad; he was elected ARA in 1864 and RA in 1868, and attained the Presidency of the Royal Academy in 1878. He was the most influential of the Victorian Classical painters, and an important exponent of the 'subjectless' painting associated with the Aesthetic Movement, in which pictorial narrative is suppressed in favour of beauty and atmosphere. Leighton died on 25 January 1896 and is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
It represents a nude figure of a young girl standing upon a circular wooden base and looking over her shoulder at a frog. The present composition, is primarily a study of the human figure. The publisher Arthur Leslie Collie, produced relatively inexpensive bronze statuettes by leading contemporary sculptors from 1890 up until 1901, when his business failed mainly due to French competition.
Frederic Leighton (1830-96) was born in Scarborough in 1830, the son of a physician. After receiving an all round education, he studied art at Frankfurt under Steinle, and at Brussels, Paris and Rome. In 1852 he began to work independently and spent the next three years in Rome. Leighton's painting Cimabue's Madonna carried through Florence (1853-55) was his first major work, and an immediate success. When it was shown at the Royal Academy in 1855, it was bought by Queen Victoria. Leighton settled in London in 1859, though he frequently travelled abroad; he was elected ARA in 1864 and RA in 1868, and attained the Presidency of the Royal Academy in 1878. He was the most influential of the Victorian Classical painters, and an important exponent of the 'subjectless' painting associated with the Aesthetic Movement, in which pictorial narrative is suppressed in favour of beauty and atmosphere. Leighton died on 25 January 1896 and is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Object details
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| Title | Needless Alarms (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Bronze |
| Brief description | Statuette, bronze, 'Needless Alarms', after a model by Frederic Lord Leighton, published by Arthur Leslie Collie, England, 1897 |
| Physical description | Statuette. Bronze figure of a nude young girl standing upon a circular wooden base and looking over her shoulder at a frog. On the base inscribed. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Pubd by Arthur L. Collie, 39b Old Bond Street, London, November 11, 1897' (on the base at the back) |
| Object history | Purchased from Messrs Ernest E. Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, 20 Green Street, Leicester Square, London in 1905, for £15 15s. |
| Historical context | Lord Leighton was a highly successful painter and sculptor, who became President of the Royal Academy. The present composition, is primarily a study of the human figure. The publisher Arthur Leslie Collie, produced relatively inexpensive bronze statuettes by leading contemporary sculptors from 1890 up until 1901, when his business failed mainly due to French competition. |
| Production | after a model by Frederic Lord Leighton |
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| Summary | This bronze statuette is made after a model by Frederic Lord Leighton and published by Arthur Leslie Collie in 1897. It represents a nude figure of a young girl standing upon a circular wooden base and looking over her shoulder at a frog. The present composition, is primarily a study of the human figure. The publisher Arthur Leslie Collie, produced relatively inexpensive bronze statuettes by leading contemporary sculptors from 1890 up until 1901, when his business failed mainly due to French competition. Frederic Leighton (1830-96) was born in Scarborough in 1830, the son of a physician. After receiving an all round education, he studied art at Frankfurt under Steinle, and at Brussels, Paris and Rome. In 1852 he began to work independently and spent the next three years in Rome. Leighton's painting Cimabue's Madonna carried through Florence (1853-55) was his first major work, and an immediate success. When it was shown at the Royal Academy in 1855, it was bought by Queen Victoria. Leighton settled in London in 1859, though he frequently travelled abroad; he was elected ARA in 1864 and RA in 1868, and attained the Presidency of the Royal Academy in 1878. He was the most influential of the Victorian Classical painters, and an important exponent of the 'subjectless' painting associated with the Aesthetic Movement, in which pictorial narrative is suppressed in favour of beauty and atmosphere. Leighton died on 25 January 1896 and is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. |
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| Accession number | 1054-1905 |
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