Another outing to Leighton House
Sep. 21st, 2025 09:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kazzy_ceeOn Friday, I met a friend and we visited the Leighton House Museum (the history of which you can read about here). I've been there many times, but my friend had never seen it, so it was nice to show her around and see the temporary exhibition: Victorian Treasures from Cecil French and Scott Thomas Buckle, which was about to close.
I love Leighton House - it has amazing interiors and was clearly a beloved home to Frederic, Lord Leighton, who extended and added to it over time. It was built in 1865 when Leighton was 35 years old and already an extremely accomplished and popular artist, and was designed to be the perfect house for an artist with an enormous studio. It was also a place where Leighton could display various objects he acquired on his many travels abroad, including my favourite space in the house - the Arab Hall - decorated with tiles, and with a wonderful fountain in the centre. It is so tranquil...
However, we were there to see the Victorian drawings and paintings in the collections of Cecil French and Scott Thomas Bucle, and under the cut are some examples, including a few things from the house (just because). Picture heavy (they enlarge with a click).
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It was good to catch the exhibition before it ended and my friend really enjoyed visiting Leighton House and is determined to visit again.
I love Leighton House - it has amazing interiors and was clearly a beloved home to Frederic, Lord Leighton, who extended and added to it over time. It was built in 1865 when Leighton was 35 years old and already an extremely accomplished and popular artist, and was designed to be the perfect house for an artist with an enormous studio. It was also a place where Leighton could display various objects he acquired on his many travels abroad, including my favourite space in the house - the Arab Hall - decorated with tiles, and with a wonderful fountain in the centre. It is so tranquil...
However, we were there to see the Victorian drawings and paintings in the collections of Cecil French and Scott Thomas Bucle, and under the cut are some examples, including a few things from the house (just because). Picture heavy (they enlarge with a click).
( Read more... )
It was good to catch the exhibition before it ended and my friend really enjoyed visiting Leighton House and is determined to visit again.
