The house is as he left it and his study is packed with many of his drawings which I found really inspiring (and somewhat daunting), many of them on grey paper so that he could use white chalk to bring out highlights. I was struck by all of them, but really impressed by a simple study of some folded silk material. The execution of this drawing was fabulous, and is really one to try and emulate (!)
On show were also had a number of pre-Raphaelite paintings, including this huge one by Waterhouse called Mariamne, depicting King Herod condemning his wife to death:
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