Think of an artist’s colony in London, and I bet the last place you’d come up with is Kensington. But in the 1860s, to the end of the century, the respectable backstreets off Kensington High ...

Hidden in a reasonably unassuming house in London's upmarket borough of Kensington and Chelsea is the Leighton House Museum, a wunderkammer of Islamic art and architecture. Now the traditional ...

When Leighton house, a museum created in the sumptuous London ... £1.8m through friends of the museum and £5.6m from Kensington and Chelsea council. Within the shell of an unprepossessing ...

Also renovated at the same time is sister museum to Leighton House: Sambourne House, just off Kensington High Street. Home to the Punch cartoonist and noted illustrator and photographer Edward Linley ...

Apart from Leighton House, they remain in private ownership ... Leighton was now a grandee of the artistic establishment, involved in the South Kensington Museum and otherwise a formidable advocate ...

The museum tells the story of these houses ... basement level as part of the collection care facilities. The development of Leighton House has been supported by funds from Kensington and Chelsea ...

Leighton House Museum in Kensington, west London, was the opulent home and studio of Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton and has undergone a £1.6 million refurbishment. Created by Lord ...

The exhibition has been on display at the NGC from September 2015 to January 2016 and has now travelled to Leighton House Museum which is owned and operated by the Royal Borough of Kensington and ...

Think of an artist’s colony in London, and I bet the last place you’d come up with is Kensington. But in the 1860s, to the end of the century, the respectable backstreets off Kensington High Street – ...

Frederic Leighton The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Leighton House museum, with its exquisite Orientalist interior and its famous tiled Arab and Narcissus Halls, is re-opening on October ...