Frederick Richards Leyland
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Frederick Richards Leyland was one of the largest British shipowners, running 25 steamships in the transatlantic trade. He was also a major art collector, who commissioned works from several of the Pr
Head of Frederick Leyland (1879), by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Frances Leyland, 1871–1874, by James McNeill Whistler
The Peacock Room by James McNeill Whistler and Thomas Jeckyll
Edward Burne-Jones designed Leyland's funerary monument, located in Brompton Cemetery
Brompton Cemetery
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Brompton Cemetery is, since 1852, the first London cemetery to be Crown property, managed by The Royal Parks, in West Brompton in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the Magnific
Frederick Richards Leyland
…in the Smithsonian Museum's Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Leyland died in 1892, one of the largest shipowners in Britain, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London. The grave is 10m west of the main path between the north entrance and colonnade but is highly recognisable due to its unique form and design…
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Brompton Cemetery Chapel
Tomb of Frederick Richards Leyland (the only Grade II* funerary monument in Brompton Cemetery)
The military section, Brompton Cemetery