Tomb of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Painting details

Title: Tomb of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Date: 1861
Media: Stone
Dimensions: x cm
Location: Campo Santo Cemetary, Florence

Interpretation

Leighton was a close friend of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband Robert Browning. When Elizabeth died in 1861 he designed her tomb at the Campo Santo Cemetary in Florence. Leighton's biographer Alice Corkran noted that his design for a medallion for her tomb was initially modelled by in clay: "Leighton had done memorable work in clay ... He had designed a medallion to the monument of Mrs. Barrett Browning, marking her resting place in the Protestant Cemetary at Florence..." In fact, Leighton designed the entire tomb and most of the surving drawings are in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. [Corkran, Alice, 'Frederic Leighton', Methuen & Co., London, 1904, p.116]

Provenance

Erected in Campo Santo Cemetary, Florence in 1861

Bibliography

• Corkran, Alice, 'Frederic Leighton', Methuen and Co., London, 1904, p.116