Leighton House Museum

Events at Leighton House Museum

• The Leighton House Drawings Collection

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  Recurring event

  Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896) is acknowledged as one of the great Victorian draughtsmen. The Leighton Drawings Project aimed to catalogue, conserve, and photograph and exhibit the collection of almost 700 drawings at Leighton House. It was carried out between 2005 and 2007 with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund. The fully illustrated catalogue can be accessed through this website, along with a database of all Leighton drawings in other public collections worldwide, created with the support of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. A printed catalogue, which accompanies the exhibition, is available from the Museum.

   

• Miscellaneous Material Related to Leighton

  Exhibition

  Recurring event

  14 items of personal material including documents, personal mementos, embroideries, enamels and caricatures.

   

• Painting Collections

  Exhibition

  Recurring event

  Leighton House has some 81 oil paintings by Leighton. Many of these works are oil sketches which Leighton produced as part of the process of creating the major paintings. Of the 81 works, 9 are on loan to Leighton House from other institutions or private individuals. Below are a selection of the paintings on display at Leighton House.

   

• Prints of Leighton's Works

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  Recurring event

  There are 54 prints of Leighton's works at the Museum - many were acquired from the original publishers and reproduce his major works. A number are signed.