The Leighton Drawings Project aimed to catalogue, conserve, photograph and exhibit the collection of almost 700 drawings by Frederic Leighton at Leighton House Museum. It was carried out between 2005 and 2007 with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, and can be accessed, along with a database of all Leighton drawings in other public collections worldwide, from the website of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.
“Flaming June” is the Leighton painting that I find the most sensuous: the imagery is evocative of glorious repose.
Frederic Leighton”s studio is now open to the public as a museum : it is known as an amazing work of architecture in its own right- a fusion of Middle Eastern and European styles. Paintings on display include works by contemporaries of Leighton including Edward Burne-Jones.
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