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Press Release Pre-Raphaelites on Paper, Leighton House Museum PRESS RELEASE Pre-Raphaelites on Paper: Victorian Drawings from the Lanigan Collection An exhibition at Leighton House Museum organised by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 12 Feb 2016 – 29 May 2016 Press Preview 11 Feb 2016 Pre-Raphaelites on Paper: Victorian Drawings from the Lanigan Collection will be the first exhibition opening at Leighton House Museum in 2016, presenting an exceptional, privately- assembled collection to the UK public for the first time. Featuring over 100 drawings and sketches by the Pre- Raphaelites and their contemporaries, the exhibition is organised by the National Gallery of Canada (NGC). It expresses the richness and flair of British draftsmanship during the Victorian era displayed in the unique setting of the opulent home and studio of artist and President of the Royal Academy (PRA) Frederic, Lord Leighton. From preparatory sketches to highly finished drawings intended as works of art in themselves, visitors will discover the diverse ways that Victorian artists used drawing to further their artistic practice, creating, as they did so, images of great beauty and accomplishment. Portraits, landscapes, allegories and scenes from religious and literary works are all represented in the exhibition including studies for some of the most well-known paintings of the era such as Edward Burne- Jones’ The Wheel of Fortune (1883), Holman Hunt’s Eve of St Agnes (1848) and Leighton’s Cymon and Iphigenia (1884). With the exception of Leighton’s painting studio, the permanent collection will be cleared from Leighton House and the drawings hung throughout the historic interiors. This outstanding collection, brought together over a 30-year period by Canadian Dr. Dennis T. Lanigan, comprises works by over 60 of the most prominent artists of the period, like Edward Burne-Jones, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Poynter and Frederic Leighton himself. Leighton is represented by five drawings including a study for Clytie, his last work, which was acquired by Leighton House in 2008. Also featured are works by Rossetti’s wife Lizzie Siddal and a study by William Morris for his only known easel painting La Belle Iseult (c.1857). In recent years much of the Lanigan Collection has been generously given or promised to the National Gallery of Canada. The exhibition is currently on view at the NGC until 3 January 2016 and will travel to Leighton House Museum which is owned and operated by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea where it will be presented as of 12 February 2016 as part of the NGC’s touring exhibition program. Pre-Raphaelites on Paper will be the first presentation of the collection in the UK. On his collection going on display at Leighton House Museum Dr. Dennis T. Lanigan commented: ‘In 1982 I acquired my first work by the Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Movement artists I really wanted to collect - an oil sketch by Frederic Leighton for Greek Girl Dancing. I had initially visited Leighton House in 1976 when I was a medical student and I fell in love with the house and with Leighton's art. I never would have imagined that forty years later pieces from my collection would be exhibited there.’ 1 Senior Curator for Leighton House Museum, Daniel Robbins said: ‘Like many of his contemporaries Leighton prized drawing as a medium and was himself a significant collector of drawings. The Lanigan Collection is as thoughtful and detailed as it is important, and as such is an honour to be working with the National Gallery of Canada and Dennis Lanigan to bring so much of the collection to London for the first time.’ Marc Mayer Director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada also commented: ‘It must have been written in the stars that the National Gallery of Canada’s exhibition of Dr. Lanigan’s extraordinary gift of Victorian drawings should travel to the Leighton House Museum, because Frederic Leighton was the first artist outside Canada whose work was collected by our institution. It was in 1882 that Leighton himself donated one of his paintings to the Gallery at the invitation of our founders, the Marquess of Lorne and Princess Louise. To say that we are thrilled about this collaboration is an understatement.’ -Ends- For further information and images please contact: Charlotte Sluter at SUTTON Tel: 0207 183 3577 Email: [email protected] LISTINGS Exhibition: Pre-Raphaelites on Paper: Victorian Drawings from the Lanigan Collection Dates: 12 February 2016 – 29 May 2016 Venue: Leighton House Museum, open daily except Tuesdays, 10am - 5.30pm Entry: £10 Adult / £8 concessions / Art Fund £5 / National Trust £5 Catalogue A lavishly illustrated publication edited by Sonia Del Re, exhibition curator and Associate Curator of European, American and Asian Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Canada accompanies the exhibition. The catalogue contains essays by Sonia Del Re, by leading Victorian art scholar Christopher Newall and by collector and donor Dennis T. Lanigan, who is also the author of eighty entries. NOTES TO EDITOR About Leighton House Museum Located on the edge of Holland Park in Kensington, Leighton House Museum is one of the most remarkable buildings of the 19th century. Owned and operated by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, the house was the former home and studio of the leading Victorian artist, Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896). The house was built to his precise requirements combining studio space with domestic accommodation and entertaining space. Originally constructed on a modest basis, it grew to become a ‘private palace of art’ visited by many of the great artists of the day and regarded as one of the architectural sights of London. The Arab Hall, designed to display Leighton's priceless collection of over a thousand Islamic tiles, is the centrepiece of the house. A compelling vision of the Orient is created through the Islamic tiles, mostly brought back from Damascus in Syria, combined with the gold mosaicked interior, marble columns and golden dome. The opulence continues through the richly decorated interiors, adorned with elaborate mosaic floors and walls lined with peacock blue tiles by the ceramic artist William De Morgan. On the 2 first floor, the grand painting studio with its great north window, dome and apse is the room in which all Leighton’s important later works were produced, including the celebrated Flaming June. Also on the first floor, the Silk Room displays paintings by Leighton’s friends and contemporaries. The house was restored to great acclaim between 2008-10, winning an RIBA award and a Europa Nostra award. Leighton rose to become the President of the Royal Academy in 1878 and the pre-eminent classical painter of his age. He remains the only British artist to have been raised to the peerage, becoming Baron Leighton of Stretton just before he died. He was buried in St Paul’s Cathedral amidst great ceremony. For more information visit www.leightonhouse.co.uk About the National Gallery of Canada The National Gallery of Canada is home to the most important collections of historical and contemporary Canadian art. The Gallery also maintains Canada's premier collection of European Art from the 14th to the 21st century, as well as important works of American, Asian and Indigenous Art and renowned international collections of prints, drawings and photographs. Created in 1880, the National Gallery of Canada has played a key role in Canadian culture for well over a century. Among its principal missions is to increase access to excellent works of art for all Canadians. For more information, visit gallery.ca About Daniel Robbins Daniel Robbins is Senior Curator, Museums with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and is responsible for Leighton House Museum and 18 Stafford Terrace, two of London’s best-loved house museums. He has organised many exhibitions and has contributed to numerous catalogues and publications around nineteenth-century art, architecture and design, including the authorship of the companion guidebook to Leighton House Museum published in 2011. He was also responsible for leading the award-winning project to refurbish and restore Leighton House, completed between 2008 and 2010. The artists represented in Pre-Raphaelites on Paper: Victorian Drawings from the Lanigan Collection at Leighton House Museum are: Lawrence Alma-Tadema Robert Bateman George Price Boyce John Brett Ford Madox Brown Edward Burne-Jones Fredric William Burton Edward Clifford Charles Allston Collins Walter Crane Evelyn De Morgan William De Morgan George du Maurier John Gilbert George Howard Walter Howell Deverell Michael Frederick Halliday Alfred Hassam Henry Holiday Arthur Hughes 3 William Holman Hunt John William Inchbold Alphonse Legros Frederic Leighton Daniel Maclise Sidney Harold Meteyard John Everett Millais Albert Moore William Morris Louis Fairfax Muckley William Mulready Charles Fairfax Murray Joseph Noel Paton George John Pinwell Edward John Poynter Valentine Cameron Prinsep William Blake Richmond Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael Rossetti Thomas Matthews Rooke Fredrick Sandys William Bell Scott Byam Shaw Fredric James Shields Elizabeth Siddal James Smetham Simeon Solomon Joseph Edward Southall John Roddam Spencer Stanhope Fredric George Stephens Marie Spartali Stillman John Melhuish Strudwick Henry Wallis Louisa Anne Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford John William Waterhouse John Dawson Watson George Frederic Watts Philip Speakman Webb James McNeill Whistler William Lindsay Windus William Frederick Yeames 4 .
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