“Flaming June,” by Lord Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), is such a powerful ... Leighton set his youthful figure — a classical nymph or naiad — in a Mediterranean setting.

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 ...

Lord Frederic Leighton's Crenaia, the nymph of Dargle, c. 1880 (The Perez Simon Collection) It was during the early Eighties that Leighton first began exhibiting his paintings of Dene at the Royal ...

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 ...

For roughly the last three decades of the 19th century, Frederic Leighton (1830-96) stood at the apex of the Victorian art world. A sculptor as well as a painter, he was an immensely gifted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sir Frederic Leighton’s iconic painting Flaming June (1895) back at the Royal Academy, on loan from the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico. First exhibited at the RA almost 128 years ago at the ...

The most distinguished of the Kensington artist set was Frederic, Lord Leighton, who lived at 12 Holland Park Road, the last reminder of that vanished world. Now, following an extensive ...

Lord Frederic Leighton's Crenaia, the nymph of Dargle, c. 1880 (The Perez Simon Collection) It was during the early Eighties that Leighton first began exhibiting his paintings of Dene at the Royal ...