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In 1868, Leighton was elected Royal Academician, and the Academy had six contributions from his prolific palette which fixed his reputation as the creator of ideal form. His style bore the unmistakable influence of his recent visits to Greece, and projected new visions of themes which had attracted him in childhood. Among the mythological subjects exhibited in 1868 was Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore.
Royal Academician