BRISTOL, UK.- Never seen before drawings by Frederic, Lord Leighton to go on show at Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery. A new exhibition of one of the largest and most important collections of drawings by Frederic, Lord Leighton is on display at Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery through September 2, 2007. Following their conservation, from November 2006 to February 2007, at Leighton House Museum in London, visitors will be able to see work from the most well-known artist of the late nineteenth century.

Children will be able to take part in exciting drawing workshops with artists from the group DRAW! Lunchtime gallery talks are planned to allow visitors to enjoy Leighton’s work even more and understand why drawing was so important.

A Victorian Master. Drawings by Frederic, Lord Leighton consists of more than fifty works from all stages of Leighton’s career. From early studies made as a student in Frankfurt in his late teens, to the very last drawings he was working on before his death, many of the works on show have not been seen in over half a century and include some of the most beautiful studies made by any British artist of this period.

During a trip to Capri in 1859, Leighton drew the extraordinary Study of a Lemon Tree in which each leaf and branch is painstakingly reproduced to an extremely high standard. This study will be on show for the first time ever beside the other drawings Leighton made on this trip. As will Clytie, the final emotive painting Leighton was working on at the time of his death.

The exhibition, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, runs until Sunday 2 September 2007, entry is free as is museum entry.