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The Arab Hall. Frederick Leighton: Traveller and Collector
Gibson, Melanie: The Arab Hall. Frederick Leighton: Traveller and Collector. 2026. 312 pages, 220 colour illustrations. Hardback. Six chapters look at Frederic Leighton's process of building the house, his travels around the Mediterranean and North Africa, his collection of artefacts, facsimiles of Iznik tiles created by William de Morgan, and visits by figures like the Prince and Princess of Wales, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edward Burne-Jones, and Lawrence Alma-Tameda. Two appendices, the first with transliterations, translations, and an explanation of each of the inscriptions in the Hall, and the second containing letters from Leighton to Val Prinsep.
Six chapters look at Frederic Leighton's process of building the house, his travels around the Mediterranean and North Africa, his collection of artefacts, facsimiles of Iznik tiles created by William de Morgan, and visits by figures like the Prince and Princess of Wales, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edward Burne-Jones, and Lawrence Alma-Tameda. Two appendices, the first with transliterations, translations, and an explanation of each of the inscriptions in the Hall, and the second containing letters from Leighton to Val Prinsep
