DISCOVER AND
EXPLORE
Rooms in focus
Leighton House is now open!
With the exception of Leighton’s private bedroom and garden, the
rest of the historic spaces at Leighton House are fully accessible
as part of a one-way route designed to allow visitors to navigate
safely and comfortably throughout the interiors. As part of the
safety measurements that have
been introduced, the room guides have been removed from
the museum however visitors can find out more about the historic
interiors from the links below:
- THE DRAWING ROOM
- THE DINING ROOM
- THE SILK ROOM
- THE STAIRCASE
- THE ARTIST STUDIO
The Five Senses
Leighton’s paintings often portray and evoke
sensory experiences- sounds, smells, tactile or textured objects,
movement, rich visual environments and even different temperatures.
In this series of information sheets, we will look at some of
Leighton’s paintings through the five senses lenses.
MOTHER AND
CHILD (CHERRIES) 1864-65.
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
Get inspiration from Leighton's
painting to create a dish with cherries or to design
a space for yourself as comfortable as the one in the painting.
DOWNLOAD the Mother and Child Activity Sheet
THE MUSIC
LESSON, 1877. Guildhall Art
Gallery, City of London
Get inspiration from Leighton's
painting to make or listen to music, visit a park or
garden to look for plants you like or rearrange objects in your
environment to suite your mood.
DOWNLOAD The Music Lesson Activity Sheet
LA
NANNA(PAVONIA), 1859. Leighton House
Museum
Perhaps you could be inspired by
La Nanna to dress differently today? Is there a
combination of colours, textures or materials which make you feel
good? Are there objects in your home which give you pleasure to
look at or touch?
DOWNLOAD La Nanna Activity Sheet
Meet Lord Leighton
Have fun colouring in and dressing Lord
Leighton’s figure with a variety of detachable outfits and
accessories to suit his role of Victorian artist, traveller and
socialite. You will need A3 paper (ideally paperboard), colouring
pencils or paints, scissors and access to a printer.
Download the Meet Lord Leighton Activity
Sheet.
Looking for more fun? Have a
look at our selection of backgrounds inspired by Leighton’s house
and his travels. Just download your favourite ones, print them on
thicker paper or card and enjoy!
Visit the Meet
Lord Leighton resources page.
Paintings and Poems
Frederic Leighton and his contemporaries often drew
inspiration for paintings from poetry and stories of classic
antiquity, the Medieval or Renaissance Europe. Poets of the
Victorian age were often inspired by these paintings to write new
poems.
Explore the connection between the two art forms in
these short clips connecting a painting from our collections with a
poem:
CORINNA OF TANAGRA by
Frederic Leighton (1893) with fragments of poems by Corinna of
Tanagra (approx 500 BC)
ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE by
Frederic Leighton (1864) with a poem by Robert Browning called
Eurydice to Orpheus (1864)
SILENT
NOON by John Byam
Liston Shaw (1894) with a poem of the same name by Dante
Gabriel Rossetti
WATCH THE FULL SERIES of Paintings and Poems on our You Tube
channel