- Leighton was knighted at Windsor in 1878, and was created a baronet eight years later. He was the first painter to be given a peerage, in the New Year Honours List of 1896. The patent creating him Baron Leighton, of Stretton in the County of Salop, was issued on 24 January 1896; Leighton died the next day of angina pectoris. As he was unmarried his Barony was extinguished after existing for only a day; this is an all-time record in the Peerage. His house in Holland Park, London has been turned into a museum, the Leighton House Museum. It contains a number of his drawings and paintings.
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- Gallery pictures: Flaming June, 1895, The Nymph of the River (w..., Odalisque, Tristan & Isolde, The Painter's Honeymoon, ..., Mother and Child, Solitude, The Music Lesson, Acme & Septimus, Winding the Skein, Odalisque (with metallic ..., By the Sea, Kittens, Nausicaa, Light of the Harem, A Summer Shower
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