Leighton House: Hidden Gem Reopens After A Dazzling Refurbishment
Leighton House has been restored to its former glory after a major refurbishment that has taken several years.
Leighton House has been restored to its former glory after a major refurbishment that has taken several years.
Frederic, Lord Leighton’s painting ‘Flaming June’ one of the most iconic works of nineteenth-century British art has returned to the house in which it was painted, Leighton House Museum, Kensington.
A study of the head for a well known nineteenth century painting has re-emerged 120 years after it was last reproduced in an art magazine in 1895. The important rediscovery of pencil and white chalk study for Frederic, Lord Leighton’s Flaming June, provides the missing link in the preparatory work for the painting that has become known as […]