Frederick Leighton, an English painter, born at Scarborough, Dec. 3, 1830. He studied . principally in Italy and Germany. His first great work, " Cimabue finding Giotto drawing in the Fields," was produced in 1848. Among his other works are: " The Death of Brune-lesco;" " Cimabue," representing the triumphal procession in Florence at the reception of that master's "Madonna," which was exhibited in 1855, and at once purchased by the queen; "Orpheus redeeming his Wife from Hades" (1856); "Scene from Romeo and Juliet" (1858); "Looking at the Autumn Fields" (1859); "Capri at Sunrise" (I860); "Paolo and Francesca " and "Lieder ohne Worte" (1861); "The Star of Bethlehem" and "Michel Angelo nursing his dying Servant" (1862); " A Girl feeding Peacocks" and " An Italian Crossbowman" (1863); "Golden Hours" (1864); " Helen of Troy," " David," and "Mother and Child" (1865); " Syracusan Bride leading Wild Beasts in Procession" (1866); "Nude Venus" (1867); and " Clytem-nestra" (1874). He has illustrated several books, including George Eliot's "Romola."