"No painter of our time maintains a firmer or more consistent adherence to those severe principles of design which have received the sanction of great examples in the past. Frederick Leighton has never lowered the standard of his work in deference to popular demand, and for this persistent devotion to his own best ideals he deserves well of all who share his faith in the power of beauty."
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J. Comyns Carr; qtd. in Staley (1906), p. 106.
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