Frederic Lord Leighton (After), The Last Watch Of Hero

Frederic Lord Leighton (After), The Last Watch Of HeroThis enchanting Victorian photogravure is after a painting by Frederic Lord Leighton (1830 1896) titled The Last Watch Of Hero. It describes the emotional climax of a story from Greek mythology. Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite, and Leander, a young man from Abydos, are desperately in love. Hero resides in a tower and the two are separated by the Hellespont a treacherous passage of water. Undeterred, each night Leander would swim across the strait to

the new design was a sight to behold with a theatre at the pier-head and ample opportunities for entertainment

Léopold Lecomte (1890-1963)

The portrait is housed within

The painting is signed/dated in the lower right and housed within a gilded frame that could be its original

A beautiful early 20th-century portrait of a woman wearing a blue top with a white collar by German artist Hans Anton Cilio-Jensen (1876-1959)

Bos “De Poort” of The Hague (catalogue number 4896)

An enigmatic turn of the century scene depicting a family watching the sunset by Belgian artist

Our reference: BRV967

which gently illuminates several objects

Bruxelles’ at an auction in Belgium in 1992

Our restorers would make a fine job of touching up all the missing areas but in our opinion

a flicker of excitement - a glimmer of a brighter future