Whistler Peacock Room London

A wealthy self made man and an aristocrat of taste leyland collected chinese porcelain as well as old masters and pre raphaelite painting.

Whistler peacock room london.

Whistler s most splendid claim to be king of the aesthetes was the peacock room an opulent dream place in blue and gold that he created for london art collector frederick richard leyland today. 10 00 buy filthy lucre ginger jar enamel badge. Before the peacock room became a work of art by whistler it was the dining room in the london home of frederick leyland a shipping magnate from liverpool. The story of the beautiful connects virtual tours of the peacock room to places and faces associated with its dynamic cosmopolitan history from its controversial creation in victorian london by the expatriate american artists james mcneill whistler 1834 1903 to its subsequent use as an aesthetic laboratory in detroit by the gilded age collector and industrialist charles lang freer 1854 1919 who founded of the freer gallery of art the first art museum of the smithsonian institution.

Darren waterston s filthy lucre presents a dystopian response to the celebrated peacock room of 1876 designed by the architect thomas jeckyll and made infamous by the controversial painter james abbott mcneill whistler.