Celebrating #DorothyDene born #OTD in 1859 🎂

Dene became #FredericLeighton 's principal model in the later years of his life, modelling for works including, Bianca (1881), Desdemona (1888), Clytie (1895-6) & possibly his celebrated #FlamingJune (1895) 👉 buff.ly/3pNNeat

Today's Art UK #onlineartexchange is mythical creatures for Perth Museum’s reopening & Unicorn exhibition 🦄

Flying through the floral Japanese embossed wallpaper of the Drawing Room at #SambourneHouse what do you think this mystical creature could be? Unicorn? Dragon?

Reviewed by Sambourne family expert Shirley Nicholson (author of A Victorian Household: Based on the Diaries of Marion Sambourne) read Victorian Web review of #OutShopping 'a delightful exhibition, small but full of interest' 👗👇

Speaking live on BBC Radio London Robert Elms this past weekend, hear Leighton House and Sambourne House Curator, Hannah Lund, chat all things #OutShopping

🎙️ Listen now (1:41-1:48) buff.ly/3U9TDwc

In 1870 Leighton commissioned the eminent landscape gardener & craftswoman #GertrudeJekyll three #embroidery works, including the staircase seat cushions at Leighton House

Reproductions now on display, with the delicate original works preserved in the museum's collections store

An evening not to be missed for any fashion, embroidery or history enthusiast! 👗✨

Get your tickets: buff.ly/4csXhc2

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Today's Art UK #onlineartexchange is Music 🎵 to celebrate Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery’s #VictorianRadicals From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement

Who wouldn't want to be serenaded by a river as in John Byam Shaw's 1894 'Silent Noon'. Find it on the staircase at Leighton House

'Out Shopping: The Dresses of Marion and Maud Sambourne (1880-1910)’, is now open at Leighton House and Sambourne House

The Costume Society is proud to have supported the conservation of this lilac tea gown owned by Maud.

C.1902
Crepe gown with velvet and lace detailing and silk lining.