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interest… it is now time for Victorian art to
be fully celebrated and for the British public
to see paintings from the Pérez Simón collection
they have never seen before.’
Viscount Linley
Enjoy fabulous hospitality packages at Leighton House Museum and
help bring this exhibition to London
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The Pérez Simón Collection is one of the greatest private collections of Victorian masterpieces in the world. Based in Mexico, the collection has never before been seen in Europe. Through 2013-14 the most significant works from the collection will be shown at three prestigious museums in European capitals: the Jacquemart- André Museum in Paris, the Chiostro Del Bramante in Rome and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.
There is now the opportunity to bring the exhibition to Leighton House Museum in London, as the only UK venue for the show. Featuring paintings by all the great names of Victorian art, including Leighton himself, Alma-Tadema, Millais, Burne-Jones, Waterhouse and Albert Moore, this fabulous collection will attract national interest from the public and media fascinated by the work of the Pre-Raphaelite painters and their Victorian contemporaries.
We are offering opportunities to support the exhibition and provide your clients with a magical evening at Leighton House.
Edwin Long, Vashti/Esther, 1878
Albert Moore, The Quat let 1868
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The profile and reputation of Pre- Raphaelite and other painters of the Victorian era has grown steadily over recent years. The art of the period was exceptionally rich and diverse, and the elevated status and reputation of the leading artists of the day is unique in the history of British art.
A total of 50 works are included in the exhibition, which consists of exceptional pictures by many of the most prominent and celebrated artists of the period.
A particular focus is on High Victorian classicism and aestheticism: the representation of beauty for its own sake, which was one of the defining themes in the art of the period.
Frederic, Lord Leighton, Crenaia, c.1880
ARTISTS INCLUDE:
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema | 8 works
Frederic, Lord Leighton | 5 works
Sir Edward Burne-Jones |3 works
Albert Moore | 3 works
Sir Edward Poynter
Sir John Everett Millais
Henry Payne
John William Godward
Edwin Long
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Arthur Hughes
John Melhuish Strudwick
Charles Perugini
Frederick Goodall
Hans Wontner
Emma Sandys
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HOSPITALITY OPPORTUNITIES
Hosted Dinner in Leighton’s Dining Room 6.30-11pm
An opportunity never previously offered: dinner seated at Leighton’s own dining table recently acquired by the Museum.
Champagne and canape reception
An introductory tour of the house and exhibition by Senior Curator, Daniel Robbins.
Three-course dinner (choice of menus) with wine for up to 15 guests at Lord Leighton's original dining table
Benefits for Host: Exclusive use of Leighton House on your chosen evening Recognition as a supporter of Leighton House
12 Months free membership of the Patrons of Leighton House
Complimentary catalogue for each of your guests
Two tickets to the exhibition Private View
Free pass to the exhibition for you and your dinner guests
Six tickets to the 'Flaming June' Garden Party 2014
Price of package - £12,000
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Hosted Cocktail Party in Leighton's Studio 6.30-9pm
Champagne, wine and canape reception in the studio, with access to other parts of the house.
An introductory tour of the house and exhibition by Senior Curator, Daniel Robbins.
Based on 60 guests (as an example)
Benefits for Host:
Exclusive use of Leighton House on your chosen evening
Recognition as a supporter of Leighton House
12 Months free membership of the Patrons of Leighton House
Two tickets to the exhibition Private View
Free pass to the exhibition for host
Six tickets to the 'Flaming June' Garden Party 2014
Price of package - £10,000
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s Roses of Heliogabalus is widely regarded as one of his greatest works and was one of the most popular paintings of the Victorian period. Commissioned by the engineer Sir John Aird for the large sum of £4,000, it was Alma-Tadema's only entry in the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1888. Based on a probably invented episode in the life of the Roman emperor Heliogabalus (204–222), the emperor is portrayed attempting to smother his unsuspecting guests in a torrent of rose-petals released from false ceiling panels. For the first time the work will be shown together with its oil sketch.
John Melhuish Strudwick, In
the Golden Days, before
1907
Edward Poynter, Vénus,
1869
Henry Payne, The Enchanted
Sea, 1890 Edward Burne-Jones, Pygmalion,
1871
William Clarke Wontner,
The Dancing Girl, 1903 John William Waterhouse, The Crystal
Ball, 1902
Charles Edward Perugini, 'But, oh,
for the touch of a vanished hand,
and the sound of a voice that is
still!’, 1900
Sandys, Rêverie
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For further information, please contact:
Daniel Robbins - Senior Curator
Leighton House Museum
12 Holland Park Road
London W14 8LZ
Direct Line: 020 7471 9152
Email : [email protected]
Website: www.leightonhouse.co.uk
John William Godward, Absence Makes the Heart Grow Stronger, 1912
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Return From Market ,1865
