Curator tour: Leighton’s Collections, Lost and Found
Monday 3 March 2025, 1pm - 2pm
Join Senior Curator, Daniel Robbins for this special tour focussing on the collections of fine and decorative art that originally furnished Frederic Leighton’s house.
Sold following the artist's death in 1896, recent research and acquisitions have allowed a fuller understanding of Leighton’s interests as a collector and how his remarkable collection of artworks, furniture, textiles, ceramics, books and metalwork was displayed in the interiors of his home.
Since the Closer to Home restoration project in 2008-10, Leighton House has been working to return objects from Leighton’s original collection to the house, or where that is not possible, acquire similar examples.
Interested in Leighton House collections? Explore more:
New acquisitions to the Leighton House collection
Meet Daniel Robbins
Daniel Robbins is the Senior Curator of two of London’s most significant house museums, Leighton House and Sambourne House. He was responsible for the award-winning project to restore the historic interiors of Leighton House completed between 2008-2010 and he has also successfully led the Hidden Gem to National Treasure redevelopment focused on the additions made to the building in the twentieth century . Formerly with Glasgow Museums, he has organised many exhibitions and contributed to numerous catalogues and publications around nineteenth-century art, architecture and design. Daniel is an accredited lecturer for the Arts Society and has lectured across the UK and internationally including the Frick, New York and the Ponce Museum in Puerto Rico, where Leighton’s celebrated Flaming June can be found.
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Monday 3 March 2025, 1pm - 2pm
Join Senior Curator, Daniel Robbins for this special tour focussing on the collections of fine and decorative art that originally furnished Frederic Leighton’s house.
Sold following the artist's death in 1896, recent research and acquisitions have allowed a fuller understanding of Leighton’s interests as a collector and how his remarkable collection of artworks, furniture, textiles, ceramics, books and metalwork was displayed in the interiors of his home.
Since the Closer to Home restoration project in 2008-10, Leighton House has been working to return objects from Leighton’s original collection to the house, or where that is not possible, acquire similar examples.
Interested in Leighton House collections? Explore more:
New acquisitions to the Leighton House collection
Meet Daniel Robbins
Daniel Robbins is the Senior Curator of two of London’s most significant house museums, Leighton House and Sambourne House. He was responsible for the award-winning project to restore the historic interiors of Leighton House completed between 2008-2010 and he has also successfully led the Hidden Gem to National Treasure redevelopment focused on the additions made to the building in the twentieth century . Formerly with Glasgow Museums, he has organised many exhibitions and contributed to numerous catalogues and publications around nineteenth-century art, architecture and design. Daniel is an accredited lecturer for the Arts Society and has lectured across the UK and internationally including the Frick, New York and the Ponce Museum in Puerto Rico, where Leighton’s celebrated Flaming June can be found.
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