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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 ...
Crenaia, the Nymph of the Dargle, Frederic Leighton, oil on canvas, 1880. Model, Dorothy Dene. Part of the Pérez Simón collection on loan to the Leighton House Museum, 2014–15. Juan Antonio Pérez Simón (born 1941) [1] is a Spanish businessman and art collector, resident in Mexico, who became rich in the telecommunications business. [2]
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
The house also houses many of Leighton's inspirations, including his collection of Iznik tiles. Its centrepiece is the magnificent Arab Hall, which is featured in issue ten of Cornucopia. [14] A blue plaque commemorates Leighton at Leighton House Museum. [15]
Johannes Larsen – Johannes Larsen Museum, [17] Kerteminde, Denmark; Adrien–Jean Le Mayeur – Le Mayeur Museum, Sanur, Bali, Indonesia; Fernand Léger – Musée National Fernand Léger, [18] Biot, France; Max Liebermann – Liebermann Villa, Berlin; Frederic Leighton – Leighton House Museum, London
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A study and several preliminary drawings (both done in chalk) of the subject's head are in the collection of the Leighton House Museum in London. [1] One source notes that the cypress rendered in Lachrymae is reminiscent of a drawing Leighton made in Florence in 1854. [1]