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painters and their Victorian contemporaries. Victorian and their painters national interest from the public and media media public and the from interest national Pre the of work the by fascinated Moore, this fabulous collection will attract will attract collection this fabulous Moore, Millais, Burne Millais, including Leighton himself, Alma himself, Leighton including paintings by all the great names of Victorian art, Victorian of names all great the by paintings as the only UK venue for the show. Featuring Featuring show. the for venue the UK only as exhibition to Leighton House Museum in London, London, in Museum House Leighton to exhibition the bring to the opportunity now is There Museum in Madrid. in Museum Bramante in Rome and and the in Rome Bramante André Museum in Paris, the the Paris, in Museum André museums in European capitals: the capitals: in European museums collection will be shown at three prestigious prestigious three at shown be will collection 2013 the world. Based in Mexico, the collection has has collection the in Mexico, Based world. the Through in Europe. seen been before never private collections of Victorian masterpieces in masterpieces Victorian of collections private The The
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We are inviting you to join the exhibition Supporters Circle at a cost of £3000 and in return we can offer the following benefits.
Invitation to attend an exclusive Supporters Circle Private View and Reception at Leighton House for yourself and up to 15 guests, including refreshments. Free pass to the exhibition for 2. Inclusion on acknowledgement panel at entrance to the exhibition. Acknowledgement on private view invitation. Five invitations to the private view. 12 months free membership of The Friends of Leighton House.
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House, a registered charity, working to support the
museum and its activities. Exhibition Highlights
is one of his most extraordinary one is extraordinary of his most Greek Girls Picking Up Pebbles by by the Sea Up Greek GirlsPicking Pebbles
great master of drapery, using it to heighten the decorative, almost abstract quality of the qualitypicture. abstract almost the decorative, to heighten it using of drapery, master great compositions for the depiction of draperies which arch and loop around the figures. Leighton was the was Leighton the figures. and loop around which arch depiction draperies the of for compositions Frederic Leighton’s Leighton’s Frederic Frederic, Lord Leighton, Greek Girls Picking Up Pebbles, 1871 Exhibition Highlights for the large large the for
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Commissioned by the engineer Sir John John engineer Sir the by Commissioned is widely regarded as one of his greatest works and was one of one and was works greatest his of as one is widely regarded
Tadema's only entry in the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1888. Based on Based 1888. Exhibition of Summer Academy's Royal in the only entry Tadema's - Roses of Heliogabalus of Roses to smother his unsuspecting guests in a torrent of rose of in a torrent his guests unsuspecting smother to
Tadema’s Tadema’s - the most popular paintings of the Victorian period. period. Victorian the of paintings popular most the Alma it was £4,000, of sum (204 Heliogabalus emperor Roman the of the life in episode invented probably a attempting portrayed oil sketch. its with together shown be will work the time the first For panels. Lawrence Alma Lawrence Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Roses of Heliogabalus, 1888 Further Further Paintings
Edward Poynter, Vénus, Henry Payne, The Enchanted Edward Burne-Jones, Pygmalion, Sandys, Rêverie
1869 Sea, 1890 1871
John Melhuish Strudwick, In John William Waterhouse, The Crystal William Clarke Wontner, Charles Edward Perugini, 'But, oh, the Golden Days, before Ball, 1902 The Dancing Girl, 1903 for the touch of a vanished hand, 1907 and the sound of a voice that is still!’, 1900 Contact
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Daniel Robbins - Senior Curator
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John William Godward, Absence Makes the Heart Grow Stronger, 1912 Thank you
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