Museo de Arte de Ponce, The Luis A Ferré Foundation, Inc Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June is now considered a treasure of Victorian painting. But at one point it was practically worthless ...

Dubbed “the most wonderful painting in existence,” Frederic Leighton’s “Flaming June” is now owned by a Puerto Rican museum Funny story: Andrew Lloyd Webber once saw this painting in a ...

Like most Englishmen of the 19th century, Frederic Leighton believed that beautiful art consisted in the depiction of beautiful things. In practice, this conviction led to images of statuesque ...

Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June is now considered a treasure of Victorian painting. But at one point it was practically worthless – and nearly vanished, writes Alastair Sooke. This is how the ...