Whistler Peacock Room London
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.
Whistler peacock room london. 10 00 buy filthy lucre ginger jar enamel badge. For the first time in more than a century james mcneill whistler s peacock room can be seen as the artist originally intended it now that the smithsonian s freer gallery of art has restored the. 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. Leyland engaged the british architect richard norman shaw to remodel and redecorate his home.
A wealthy self made man and an aristocrat of taste leyland collected chinese porcelain as well as old masters and pre raphaelite painting.