The Accolade by Edmund Blair Leighton, 1901

A reproduction of “The Accolade” of 1901 by Edmund Blair Leighton.   This work captures an idealized moment in the ceremony of the creation of a knight in the Middle Ages.  The original work is in a Private Collection.

Edmund Leighton was the son of the artist Charles B. Leighton and he exhibited annually at the Royal Academy from 1878 when he was aged thirty-two.  Many of his works are based in romantic depictions of knighthood and the medieval ideals of chivalry.  He is numbered among the late Pre-Raphaelistes and died in 1922.

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