Friendship and Loss in the Victorian Portrait: May Sartoris by Frederic Leighton Kimbell Signature This handsome new book highlights

This handsome new book highlights 108 masterworks from the Phillips's permanent collection and offers insight into the creation of one of the greatest private collections of modern art in the world

and concludes with the vivid and bold works of the 17th-century Neapolitan school

and exquisite Southeast Asian sculptures

and ultimately

the films are projected on screens of various unconventional formats and configurations

Friendship and Loss in the Victorian Portrait: May Sartoris by Frederic Leighton Kimbell Signature This handsome new book highlightsMalcolm Warners original and eloquent study brings Frederic Leightons portrait of May Sartoris to life as an expression of the artists remarkable friendship with Mays mother, celebrated opera singer Adelaide Sartoris. The young Leighton frequented Adelaides artistic and literary salon in Rome in the early 1850s and was on intimate terms with her by the time he painted her daughters likeness in England, around 1860. Warner places the work both within