his former art collection including works by Old Masters and his contemporaries such as a painting dedicated to Leighton by Sir John Everett Millais. The house also features many of Leighton's inspirations, including his collection of Iznik tiles. Its centrepiece is the magnificent Arab Hall. The Hall is featured in issue ten of Cornucopia. A blue plaque commemorates Leighton at Leighton House Museum. Artists Rifles Leighton was an enthusiastic volunteer soldier, enrolling with the first group to join the 38th Middlesex (Artists') Rifle Volunteer Corps (later to be known as the Artists Rifles) on 5 October 1860. His qualities of leadership were immediately identified, and he was promoted to command a Company within a few months. On 6 January 1869 Captain Leighton was elected to command the Artists Rifles by a general meeting of the corps. In the same year he was promoted to major and in 1875 to lieutenant colonel. Leighton resigned as commanding officer in 1883. The painter James Whistler famously described the then Sir Frederic Leighton, the commanding officer of the Artists Rifles, as the: "Colonel of the Royal Academy and the President of the Artists Rifles – aye, and he paints a little!" At his funeral, on 3 February 1896, his coffin was carried into St Paul's Cathedral, past a guard of honour formed by the Artists Rifles. Honours 1864: Associate of the Royal Academy 1868: Royal Academy Academician 1878: President of the Royal Academy 1878: Légion d'honneur Officer 1878: Knight Bachelor 1886: Created a baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom 1889: Associate member of the Institute of France 1896: Created a baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Selected works Death of Brunelleschi (1852), oil on canvas The Fisherman and the Siren, c. 1856–58 (66.3 × 48.7 cm) Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna Is Carried in Procession Through the Streets of Florence (1853–55), oil on canvas. The Discovery of Juliet Apparently Lifeless (c.1858) The Villa Malta, Rome (1860s), oil on canvas The Painter's Honeymoon, c. 1864 (83.8 × 77.5 cm) Mother and Child, c. 1865, (48.2 × 82 cm) Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore (1868), oil on canvas, (57.2 × 102.2 cm) National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Daedalus and Icarus, c. 1869, (138.2 × 106.5 cm) Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestis (1869–71) (132.4 × 265.4 cm) After Vespers 1871, (111.5 × 71.5 cm), Princeton University Art Museum Greek Girls