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Frederick Richards Leyland
Head of Frederick Leyland (1879), by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Born(1831-09-30)30 September 1831
Died4 January 1892(1892-01-04) (aged 60)
Burial placeBrompton Cemetery
51°29′5″N 0°11′26″W / 51.48472°N 0.19056°W / 51.48472; -0.19056
NationalityBritish
OccupationShipowner
Known forShipowner and art collector

Frederick Richards Leyland (30 September 1831 – 4 January 1892) was one of the largest British shipowners, running 25 steamships in the transatlantic trade. He was also a major art collector, who commissioned works from several of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painters.

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The Leyland Line was a British shipping transport line founded in 1873 by Frederick Richards Leyland after his apprenticeship in the firm of John Bibby...

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Gabriel Rossetti, both portraits of Frances Leyland, the wife of shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland, a regular patron of Rossetti. The earlier...

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shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland, who displayed the painting in his drawing room with five other Rossetti "stunners." After Leyland's death, the...

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The Beguiling of Merlin

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book of spells. The work was commissioned from Burne-Jones by Frederick Richards Leyland, a Liverpool ship-owner and art-collector, in the late 1860s....

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articles. Squadron Leader Geoffrey Douglas Leyland, great-grandson of British shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland, was shot down over and captured in...

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and each arcade quadrant is separately listed as Grade II*. Frederick Richards Leyland's is the only Grade II* listed funerary monument. Several other...

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Gallery. Frederick Richards Leyland commissioned eighteen paintings from Rossetti, not counting unfulfilled commissions. Soon after Leyland acquired his...

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The Peacock Room

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Kensington in London, and owned by the British shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland. Leyland engaged the British architect Richard Norman Shaw to remodel...

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Valentine Cameron Prinsep

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Florence née Leyland, daughter of Frederick Richards Leyland of Wootten Hall, Liverpool. She survived him, they had three sons. Frederick Thoby Leyland (b.1887)...

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Thomas Jeckyll

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such as Alexander Constantine Ionides and the 'Peacock Room' for Frederick Richards Leyland. Jeckyll's behaviour had become quite erratic, and in his absence...

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The Infant Bacchus

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and was the youngest player in the American League. His manager, Jim Leyland, chose to start him in the 2009 American League Central tie-breaker game...

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Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

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one of Liverpool's many listed buildings. The cathedral's architect, Frederick Gibberd, was the winner of a worldwide design competition. Construction...

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