Tasked with the interior modelling, Whistler transformed the room, painting gold-leaf peacocks on the walls to complement his own artwork over the porcelains. The changes led to a dispute with Leyland and Whistler was sacked.
The Tate has reproduced the room, with the same green vinyl adorning the walls. However, the porcelains on display will not be real antiques.
The Tate’s show, titled simply James McNeill Whistler, will feature a set of the painter’s Nocturnes, a series of nighttime landscapes.
One of these is ordinarily held in the Treaty Room of the White House, but Melania Trump, the US first lady, announced in April that the work, originally given to John F Kennedy in 1962, would be lent to the UK for the first time.
Also on display in the UK for the first time in 20 years will be Arrangement in Grey and Black No 1, better known as Whistler’s Mother, which is owned by the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
One of the world’s best-known paintings, it was central to the plot of the 1997 comedy Bean, in which Mr Bean accidentally defaces the masterpiece and secretly replaces it with a poster.