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The Leighton House Museum is an art museum and historic house in the Holland Park area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London.. The building was the London home of painter Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–1896), who commissioned the architect and designer George Aitchison to build him a combined home and studio noted for its incorporation of tiles and other ...
Holland Park Road is a residential road in the Holland Park district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England.It is especially known for Leighton House, owned by the artist Lord Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy and leading light of the Victorian Holland Park Circle, an informal group of 19th-century artists, including William Burges, Luke Fildes ...
Woodland House, 11 Melbury Road (now 31), designed by Richard Norman Shaw for Luke Fildes, built 1876–7 1 Holland Park Road (now 14), designed by Philip Webb for Val Prinsep , built 1864–6 2 Holland Park Road (now 12, the Leighton House Museum ), designed by George Aitchison for Frederic, Lord Leighton , built 1866, extensions added until 1895
Professor George Aitchison (Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1900)George Aitchison Jr. RA (London 7 November 1825 – 16 May 1910) was a British architect and academic [1] [2] of "considerable reputation".
Leighton Marshalling Yard, former railway yard in Perth, Australia Leighton Middle School , a middle school in Leighton Buzzard, England Leighton Park School , an independent secondary school in Reading, England
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, PRA (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British Victorian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical , and classical subject matter in an academic style .
Leighton was among a group of some 45 artists invited by Alma-Tadema to aid in the decoration of the atrium of his house in Grove End Road, St John's Wood (Leighton was offered one of Alma-Tadema's own pictures in kind). Each artist was tasked with painting a narrow panel—32 inches high and between 2½ and 8 inches wide—for The Hall of Panels.
The theatre presents new British writing, as well as UK and world premieres of new plays primarily from the English speaking world including North America, Canada, Ireland, and Scotland including work in the Scots language, alongside rarely seen rediscovered 19th and 20th century plays.