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  Pre-Raphaelite and other Masters: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection


 

 

Composer Andrew Lloyd Weber is considered to be the top British collector, in terms of money spent on art. Andrew Lloyd Webber, the world-famous composer of musicals such as "Cats", "Phantom of the Opera" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" that have been performed before millions worldwide.



This is the first time that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s collection has been shown in public.



The collection includes important holdings of paintings and drawings by Burne-Jones, Millais, Rossetti, Waterhouse, Atkinson Grimshaw and Tissot.



From the Holy Grail to the femme fatales, the Pre-Raphaelites caught the Victorian imagination with their remarkable blend of fantasy and naturalism. Andrew Lloyd Webber's collection contains works by the most significant Pre-Raphaelite artists.



Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters presents works by the original Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood — Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais — alongside work by later Pre-Raphaelites such as William Waterhouse and Edward Burne Jones.



The exhibition also includes work by significant Victorian artists such as Tissot, Leighton, Alma-Tadema and Grimshaw with stunning period furniture by William Morris, Pugin and Burges, and ceramics by de Morgan.




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Dulce Domum, 1885.



Chill October, 1870.



Blanzifiore (Snowdrops), 1873.



L'Orpheline, 1879.




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