Flaming June comes home to London

Flaming June, arguably the best-known painting by Frederic Leighton, is going on show tomorrow (4 November) at the Victorian artists former home and studio in west London for the first time since 1930. The much-reproduced square canvas of a red-headed woman slumbering in a sheer orange dress has travelled to Leighton House Museum from the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico. The exhibition Flaming June: the Making of an Icon (until 2 April 2017) partially recreates the line-up for Leightons f