© The artist's estate
26 items, including original sketch model for 'Eros'; three models for female sculptures; 14 designs for jewellery in wire, bronze or ink; bronze finial (Clarence Tomb); design for small ship supported by mermaid etc
Art we’ve helped buy at Leighton House Museum
A Vase of Dahlias
Acquired 2020
Three studies for Music and Dance
Acquired 1995
Sir Alfred Gilbert Works of Art
Acquired 1936
Rustic Music (Portrait of John Hanson Walker)
Acquired 1985
Portrait of Professor Giovanni Costa
Acquired 2004
Portrait of Frederic Leighton
Acquired 2003
Portrait of Carlo Eduardo Perugini (1839 - 1918)
Acquired 2006
Nymphs in a Landscape
Acquired 2014
Needless Alarms
Acquired 2007
Madonna of the Candelabra
Acquired 2006
Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestes
Acquired 1993
Clytie
Acquired 2008
Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna is Carried in Processsion through the Streets of Florence
Acquired 2011
Athlete Strangling a Python
Acquired 2005
Alexandra Leighton (Mrs Sutherland Orr)
Acquired 1997Abandoned unfinished in his studio at his death, Clytie is Leighton's final work. Acquired with the aid of The Art Fund in 2008, it is the first mature painting by the artist to enter the Leighton House collection. Depicting Clytie, Apollo's rejected lover, it captures the magnificent isolation to which she pledges herself before transforming into a flower and becoming rooted to the ground.
The half-length portrait of Lord Leighton by GF Watts reflects the lifelong friendship between artist and sitter. Captured with his head resting casually on his hand, Leighton gazes gently out towards the viewer.