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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Frederic Lord Leighton, teacher-pupil relationship, artist

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Art

Abstract

Understanding the education of an artist has always been a major focus in the study of the history of art. Asking and answering questions about an artist’s development helps historians to interpret the artist’s message, ability, and influence upon his or her contemporaries. For these reasons I became interested in the teacher-pupil relationship of one of the greatest artists of the Victorian age, Frederic Lord Leighton (1830-1886) and his Nazarene instructor Edward von Steinle (1810-1886). Leighton’s style underwent a dramatic change from 1850 to 1852 when he was a student of Steinle in Frankfurt. The impact that this master had upon his young pupil has been recognized as immeasurable by many scholars, and as a result, few have attempted a thorough investigation of this topic. The purpose of my research was to understand why Leightonwrote, “In a record of whatever concerns me as an artist…[Steinle’s] name should be at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end.”1

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