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 ...

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 ...

Eh? Well, that’s the revelation from this enlightening exhibition at his home, Leighton House in Kensington. From the mid-1850s when he was still in his 20s, Leighton would take off abroad to ...

A Victorian minaret with a white crescent finial looms over flat-topped brick town houses on a sleepy side street in the Kensington ... refuge into Leighton House Museum, but his family had ...

This isn't a question calculated to infuriate the rate-payers of Kensington and Chelsea ... towards the conclusion that Leighton House has always been a kind of museum – a showcase for the ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...