Leif Ericsson
a half-mythical a LEIPSIC ceeded Sir Francis Grant as president of the Academy, was knighted, named an officer of the Legion of Honor. ed, and was Seven years later he was made a baronet.
Special mention may be made of his "Hercules (1871) "Daphnephoria" (1876) "Music Wrestling with Death":
Lesson " (1877); ; "Music "Phryne" (1882); "Cymon and Iphi- 377); "Sister's Kiss" ( (1880); genia" (1884); " Captive Andromache" the large frescoes at the South Kensing- (1888); and "Ball Players" (1889); and ton Museum, representing the industrial arts applied to war, and the arts of peace. He achieved a high place as a sculptor by his "Athlete Strangling a 1876), and his "Sluggard" (1886). He had fine poetic quality, conin drawing and great refinement in execution. He died in London, Jan. 25, 1896. coterminous with the ancient kingdom of