Monday, April 30, 2012

Victorian Visions

Here's a must. Leighton House Museum in west London is showing Victorian Visions: Pre-Raphaelite and Nineteenth-Century Art from the John Schaeffer Collection until 23 September (CLICK). Artworks from one of the world’s finest private collections of Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian art are being shown in the UK for the first time. Above is Frank Dicksee's Chivalry (1885). Artists include John William Waterhouse, William Holman Hunt, G.F. Watts and Solomon J. Solomon. Admission charges are for the museum: £5 adult, £3 silver surfers. The exhibition is a free extra.