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When Lord Frederic Leighton died in 1896 he made no provision to preserve his distinctive studio-house in Kensington; it was left to his sisters to decide its fate. Having left substantial legacies, his executors had no option but to sell. The house proved to be a “white elephant” and, finding no buyer, the contents were sold at Christie's July 1896. As the sale raised over £30,000, the house was secured for the nation but the loss of the contents meant the loss of the “biographical interest” as the house was conceived as a repository for his collections. Leighton belonged to a generation of “bric-a-brac hunters” for whom collecting was a means of forging a reputation for originality and refinement. He positioned himself as the amateur de curiosité, the décorateur or metteur-en-scène, the inventor of interiors; like J.M. Whistler, Leighton conceived interior decor as an art form. With the loss of his “treasures,” the artist's presence has been lost and his reputation as a connoisseur and decorator obscured. With a major refurbishment begun in 2008, the opportunity to address this issue arose; was it feasible to reconstruct or re-create Leighton House as a “home” rather than a “museum?” The outcome, opened in April 2010, was Closer to Home: The Restoration of Leighton House and the Catalogue of the Reopening Displays.
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