![]() ![]() The exhibition prevented visitors from appreciating the full extent of the house’s decor, however, the ‘Arab Hall’, fitted with an indoor fountain, remained untouched by the display. Originally the house of Frederic, Lord Leighton, 1st Baron Stretton (1830-96), a famous British artist of a similar era to Alma-Tadema, the house is full of decorative art and furnishings from all over the world. ![]() Leighton House was the perfect location for an exhibition of an artist who portrays many ancient foreign scenes in his work. Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity displays over 100 paintings that reveal the artist’s interest in both the domestic life of antiquity and his own home life. ![]() Collection of Ann and Gordon GettyĮarlier this year (7th July – 29th October 2017), Leighton House Museum in Kensington put on the largest exhibition of an illustrious Victorian artist to be shown in London since 1913. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Coign of Vantage, 1895 (detail). ![]()
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