Only Connect - Joseph Joachim <> Frederic Leighton

How are these sitters connected?

Joseph Joachim
by Sir Leslie Ward
published in Vanity Fair 5 January 1905
NPG 4930

The connection:
The artist Lord Leighton’s studio in Holland Park was designed for the creation of art and the performance music; it was here that Leighton’s friend, the violinist Joseph Joachim, often played music by J.S. Bach.

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