{{Short description|Painting by Frederic Leighton}} {{italic title}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=February 2023}} [[Image:Leighton Captive Andromache.jpg|thumb|350px|''Captive Andromache'' by Frederic Leighton (ca. 1888)]] '''''Captive Andromache''''' is an oil painting on a 197 cm × 407 cm canvas by Frederic Leighton produced in ca. 1888.<ref>{{cite web|title=Captive Andromache|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/captive-andromache-205422|website=BBC|accessdate=2 January 2016}}</ref> The subject is from Homer's ''Iliad''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hammerschlag|first1=Keren Rosa|title=Frederic Leighton: Death, Mortality, Resurrection|date=2015|publisher=Ashgate|isbn=978-1472414359|page=37|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jGE2CwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Captive+Andromache%22&pg=PA37|accessdate=2 January 2016}}</ref> The painting was purchased by Manchester City Council for £4,000 from the artist in 1889. It now hangs in Manchester Art Gallery<ref>{{cite book|last1=Edward|first1=Morris|title=Public Art Collections in North-west England: A History and Guide|date=2001|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0853235279|page=118|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sks583w0MXkC&q=%22Captive+Andromache%22&pg=PA90|accessdate=2 January 2016}}</ref>
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Category:1888 paintings Category:Mythological paintings by Frederic Leighton Category:Collection of Manchester Art Gallery Category:Paintings based on the Iliad
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