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 ...

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 ...

This week marks the anniversary of the death of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), whose mythological paintings turned classical tales into spectacles of flesh, drama and emotion.

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

A study for Frederic Leighton‘s Flaming June, the striking Victorian-era painting of a young woman napping in a flowing orange dress, was found hung behind a bedroom door in a Surrey mansion ...

Mention Flaming June or Frederic Lord Leighton, and people squint. Show them the image on your iPhone, the painting of the sprawled, sleeping woman in a see-through saffron gown, and their eyes ...

Like most Englishmen of the 19th century, Frederic Leighton believed that ... together with a small oil-sketch for Leighton’s painting, on loan from a private collection. (Two other Whistler ...

When you think of Frederic Leighton, eminent Victorian, president of the Royal Academy, painter of that staple of the gift card market, Flaming June, it’s probably classical figure paintings ...

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 ...