Situated on the A417 between Lechlade and the village of Faringdon, Buscot is really accessible only by car. The late eighteenth-century house, now owned by the National Trust, is set in rather splendid gounds, including sculpture, Italianate water features, and a lake.    Buscot contains part of the collection of successive Lords Faringdon. (The remainder can apparently be seen in Brompton Square, London, by arrangement, but contains virtually no Victorian pictures.) The highlight of the pictures at Buscot is of course Burne-Jones' 'Briar rose' series, which dominates the 'saloon', or main reception room. The rest of the house is also filled with pictures, from the Flemish School to twentieth-century British art. Most of the Victorians are upstairs, and include a couple of Rossetti's preparatory chalk drawings, and -- quite a shock in a bedroom -- Leighton's starkly classical 'Daedalus and Icarus'.    The Faringdon Collection website contains images of the pictures at Buscot; although it is rather poorly organized. Website Map

Works at Buscot by Ford Madox Brown Edward Coley Burne-Jones William Etty Frederic Leighton John Everett Millais Dante Gabriel Rossetti Jacques Joseph Tissot George Frederick Watts John Reinhard Weguelin