Holland Park Circle

Victorian artists group in London

Holland Park Circle
Leighton House, 12 Holland Park Road, home of Lord Leighton PRA, member of the Holland Park Circle
Named after	Holland Park
Formation	Late 19th century
Founded at	Holland Park, London
Type	Art group
Legal status	Disbanded
Purpose	Art
Location	London, United Kingdom
Origins	Little Holland House
Region served	Holland Park, London
Products	Artworks
Field	Visual art
Key people	George Frederic Watts, Frederic Leighton, Valentine Prinsep, Luke Fildes, Hamo Thornycroft, William Burges

The Holland Park Circle was an informal group of 19th-century artists based in the Holland Park district of West London, England, especially in Melbury Road and Holland Park Road. George Frederic Watts, Frederic Leighton, Valentine Prinsep, Luke Fildes, Hamo Thornycroft and William Burges are considered key members of the group.

List of artists' houses of the Holland Park Circle

The following are houses of special interest:

2, 2a, and 2b Melbury Road, designed by John Belcher for Thomas and Mary Thornycroft and their family, built 1876–7
6 Melbury Road, designed by Frederick Pepys Cockerell for George Frederic Watts, built 1875–6; gallery extension by George Aitchison, 1878; demolished 1964 and replaced by a block of flats, Kingfisher House
8 Melbury Road, designed by Richard Norman Shaw for Marcus Stone, built 1875–7
The Tower House, 9 Melbury Road (now 29), designed by William Burges for himself, built 1876–8
14 Melbury Road for Colin Hunter by J. J. Stevenson, built 1876; destroyed by bombing during the Second World War
Woodland House, 11 Melbury Road (now 31), designed by Richard Norman Shaw for Luke Fildes, built 1876–7
1 Holland Park Road (now 14), designed by Philip Webb for Val Prinsep, built 1864–6
2 Holland Park Road (now 12, the Leighton House Museum), designed by George Aitchison for Frederic, Lord Leighton, built 1866, extensions added until 1895
South House and 3 Holland Park Road (now 10), designed by W. E. and F. Brown for J. J. Shannon, built 1892
49 Napier Road, designed by John William Simpson for Herbert Schmalz (Herbert Carmichael), redeveloped and studio added 1893

^ Banerjee, Jacqueline. "Melbury Road, Leighton House, and the Holland Park Artists' Houses". The Victorian Web. Retrieved 24 August 2023.

v t e Frederic Leighton
Paintings	Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna (1853–55) The Fisherman and the Syren (c. 1858) The Painter's Honeymoon (c. 1864) The Syracusan Bride leading Wild Animals in Procession to the Temple of Diana (1866) Venus Disrobing for the Bath (1867) Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore (1868) Acme and Septimius (1868) The Arts of Industry as Applied to War (1870–72) The Arts of Industry as Applied to Peace (1870–72) The Daphnephoria (1876) The Music Lesson (1877) Winding the Skein (c. 1878) Nausicaa (c. 1878) Psamathe (1879–80) Crenaia, the Nymph of the Dargle (1880) Cymon and Iphigenia (c. 1884) Captive Andromache (1888) The Bath of Psyche (1890) Perseus and Andromeda (1891) Lachrymae (1895) Flaming June (1895)
Sculptures	An Athlete Wrestling with a Python (1877)
Museum	Leighton House Museum
Related	Alexandra Orr (sister) Holland Park Circle Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Dorothy Dene (model) Anna Risi (model)

v t e George Frederic Watts
Paintings	Found Drowned (1850) Mammon (1885) The Minotaur (1885) Hope (1886) The All-Pervading (1890) After the Deluge (1891)
Sculpture	Physical Energy (1902)
Related	Ellen Terry (first wife) Mary Fraser Tytler (Mary Seton Watts, second wife) Holland Park Circle Little Holland House Watts Gallery Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice