page_title: Leighton House Museum
section_title: Permanent collection
hierarchical_section_title: Leighton House Museum / Permanent collection
context_page_description: The Leighton House Museum is an art museum in the Holland Park area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London.
  The building was the London home of painter Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, who commissioned the architect and designer George Aitchison to build him a combined home and studio noted for its incorporation of tiles and other elements purchased in the Near East to build a magnificent Qa'a. The resulting building, completed 1866–95, on the privately owned Ilchester Estate, is now Grade II* listed. It is noted for its elaborate Orientalist and aesthetic interiors.
context_section_description: The museum has on permanent display works of art by various members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including John Everett Millais, Edward Burne-Jones and George Frederick Watts, as well as 81 oil paintings by Leighton himself.
  Some of the most notable oil paintings by Leighton in the collection are:
  The Death of Brunelleschi – 1852
  Charles Edward Perugini – 1855
  A Noble Lady of Venice – c1865
  Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestes – 1869–71
  Clytemnestra from the Battlements of Argos Watches for the Beacon Fires Which Are to Announce the Return of Agamemnon – c1874
  Professor Giovanni Costa – 1878
  The Countess of Brownlow – c1878–79
  The Vestal – c1882-3
  Alexandra Sutherland Orr (née Leighton) – 1890
  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it – c1891–92
  Other works by Leighton in the collection include:
  5 albums and sketchbooks of drawings and watercolours.
  27 watercolours.
  54 prints of Leighton's works.
  14 items of personal material including documents, personal mementos, embroideries, enamels and caricatures.
  Several small scale sculptures including: Athlete Strangling a Python (1874) and Needless Alarms (1887).
  Works in the collection not by Leighton include:
  Antonio Rossellino's carved and coloured relief: Madonna of the Candleabra, which had been in Leighton's collection, sold after his death and re-acquired by the Museum in 2006.
  G.F. Watts portrait of Frederic Leighton.
  Luke Fildes's still life and study for The Widower.
  Sir Alfred Gilbert's original sketch model for Eros.
  In 2016 Leighton's famous painting Flaming June was loaned to the Museum, and was displayed in the studio in which it was created.
caption: Self portrait of Leighton (1880)
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