Matisse in the Studio, Royal Academy, London

Step into the studio of Henri Matisse, brimming with the artist’s treasured objects. Focusing exclusively on their important role in his work for the first time, the Royal Academy will reveal how this eclectic collection took on new life in his transcendent art.

Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, Leighton House, London

At Home in Antiquity explores Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s fascination with the representation of domestic life in antiquity and how this interest related to his own domestic circumstances expressed through the two remarkable studio-houses that he created in St John’s Wood together with his wife Laura and daughters