Originated as the bequest left by Lord Leighton in 1896. Bob Speel provides some useful information about what the fund has bought.
The newspaper article quoted at Sloane Square fountain contains: "... Leighton Fund, a trust founded by two sisters of Lord Leighton, a former president of the Royal Academy, for the purpose of placing pictures and other works of art in or near public buildings."
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Leighton Fund
{On the pedestal, at the front:} Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723 - 1792 First Pre...
{Running around the urn near the top:} Sweet Thames run softly till I end my ...
She's manipulating a fan but meanwhile, unnoticed by Nell, her dress has slip...
Sculptor and painter. Born Hackney. Other work in London: Heston war memorial.
Engraver. Probably born Paris. Came to London in 1674. Died at his brother's in Hertfordshire.
Born Bold Street, Liverpool. Son of the painter William Henry Hunt. Poet and landscape painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He won the Newdigate Prize in 1851 for his poem ‘Nine...
Sculptor and illustrator. Born Halifax, Yorkshire. Other work in London in St Columba's Church, Pont Street and Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Hanwell.
Born Barnstaple, Devon. Architect, in the arts and crafts style, and writer on archaeology and medieval art. First Principle of the Central School of Arts & Crafts. The Lethaby gallery at the ...
Jan Elson has pointed out that there's something very funny about the "King's Road" on the plaque - and not just the apostrophe. The stre...