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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Leighton house, a museum created in the sumptuous London home of the Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton, reopened last October after a two-year £9.6m rebuild, the first change the ...

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 ...