Vanquished by Edmund Blair Leighton in the year 1884. Edmund Blair Leighton is best known for his works that depict medieval subject mater. As with the present work, one of the artist's most famous paintings, Godspeed, 1900, also depicts a knight on his horse. Blair Leighton’s paintings regularly celebrate chivalric imagery and there are few things more emblematic of the theme than a rousing jousting match. In the present work the artist also captures the pathos of the defeated knight and his noble steed.