Curator Tour: Leighton and Landscape with Daniel Robbins

 About this event

As part of Leighton House's Leighton and Landscape exhibition (16 November 2024 to 27 April 2025), join Senior Curator, Daniel Robbins  to explore highlights of the show and discuss what the landscape sketches reveal about Leighton’s extensive travels in Europe, north Africa and South West Asia.

The tour includes  both exhibition galleries as well as rooms in the historic interiors  where Leighton originally displayed his vast collection of landscape sketches.

Meet Daniel Robbins

Daniel Robbins is the Senior Curator of two of London’s most significant house museums, Leighton House and Sambourne House.  He was responsible for the award-winning project to restore the historic interiors of Leighton House completed between 2008-2010 and he has also successfully led the Hidden Gem to National Treasure redevelopment focused on the additions made to the building in the twentieth century . Formerly with Glasgow Museums, he has organised many exhibitions and contributed to numerous catalogues and publications around nineteenth-century art, architecture and design. Daniel is an accredited lecturer for the Arts Society and has lectured across the UK and internationally including the Frick, New York and the Ponce Museum in Puerto Rico, where Leighton’s celebrated Flaming June can be found.

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