Who painted “Cymon and Iphigenia”?

“Cymon and Iphigenia” was painted by Frederic Leighton in 1884. Where to see it: Art Gallery of New South Wales.

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Pre-Raphaelite: intense colour, hard-edged detail everywhere at once, flowing hair and medieval or literary subjects; Academic art of the time is smoother and more classical.

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British Victorian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. Wikipedia

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“Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna”, 1854
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“The Painter's Honeymoon”, 1864
“Nausicaa”, 1878