Flaming June by Lord Frederic Leighton

Flaming June (1895) by Lord Frederic Leighton is a vintage Victorian Era fine art mythology portrait painting featuring a beautiful lady sleeping. It is thought that the woman portrayed alludes to the sleeping figures the Greeks would often paint which were collectively referred to as Venus, the goddess of love, desire and beauty. It is considered to be Leighton's magnum opus showing his classicist nature. About the artist: Lord Frederick Leighton (1830-1896) works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter. His genre was Academicism, academic art is a style which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism.