The Arts Society West Sussex – The Studio Houses of the Holland Park Circle

3 MARCH 2020

2.00pm – 3.00pm

SPRING LUNCH AT 12:30PM

Tickets for lunch will need to be pre-booked for both members and guests.

In the second half of the nineteenth-century an extraordinary group of purpose-built studio-houses were built on the edge of London’s Holland Park. At their centre was the house built by Frederic Leighton from the mid-1860s. With its vast studio and exotic Arab Hall it provided an inspiration to other artists who commissioned houses of their own. Combining domestic accommodation with studio space and space in which to entertain, these houses provide fascinating insights into the wealth, status and taste of successful artists of the period. The lecture explores the houses of the Holland Park Circle to determine why these artists invested so much in the creation of their homes and the uses they then put them to.

Presented by Daniel Robbins