20-06-2016 08:00 via theguardian.com

Leighton's Flaming June to go on display in studio where it was painted

London’s Leighton House museum heralds return of painter’s ‘unquestioned masterpiece’ on loan from collection in Puerto RicoOne of the most famous and widely reproduced paintings of the Victorian era – Flaming June, a searingly colourful image of a beautiful young woman drugged into sleep by the simmering heat of midsummer – is to be loaned back to the London studio where it was created in 1895.“It is the one painting by Leighton that every visitor to th
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