Supporting museums Art we've helped buy The Village Wedding, Wetley Abbey

The Village Wedding, Wetley Abbey

George Hemming Mason

Art Funded
1987
Dimensions
37 x 42 cm
Bequeathed by
Vera & Aileen Woodroffe through The Art Fund
Part of a bequest to eight museums by Aileen and Vera Woodroffe through the Art Fund in 1987.

Provenance

Vera & Aileen Woodroffe.

Oil on canvas

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Leighton House Museum

12 Holland Park Road, London, Greater London, W14 8LZ
020 7602 3316
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Opening times

Saturdays and Sundays only 10am to 5:30pm Garden is closed. Please note that Leighton House Museum is currently closed during the week for restoration however a programme of public events for adults and families is still available. Please check their website on www.leightonhouse.co.uk for details and opening times

Art we’ve helped buy at Leighton House Museum

Three studies for Music and Dance
 Acquired 1995
The Village Wedding, Wetley Abbey
 Acquired 1987
Still Life & Study for 'The Widower'
 Acquired 2003
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 1997

Abandoned 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.

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