Flaming June....Lord Edward Leighton, 16 x 16 Print on canvas Shipping is free on additional prints! Pay just for the first one!

Flaming June....

Print size... 16" x 16"

Originall painted in 1895, oil on canvas

By Sir Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)

Flaming June is a masterpiece by Sir Frederic Leighton, produced in 1895. Painted with oil paints on a 47-by-47-inch square canvas, and is widely considered to be Leighton's best-known work. It's also known as the Mona Lisa of the Northern Hemisphere. But at one point, you could barely give it away! 

The painting's first owners, The Graphic magazine, bought it to create a high-quality reproduction which was given away as a Christmas gift in 1895. When Leighton died in January 1896 it was put in their office window which was passed by the funeral procession. It was loaned to the Ashmolean Museum in early 1900s; its whereabouts after this are unknown.  Flaming June disappeared from view in the 1930s and was rediscovered in the 1960s in a Battersea home, boxed in over a chimney by a construction worker. The story — almost certainly exaggerated — goes that in 1962, a laborer walked into a neighborhood shop looking to hock a painting he had found hidden in a chimney at a local building site. The painting was in an elaborate gilt frame, and the builder got what he thought was a good price for it: £60.  Andrew Lloyd Webber saw it soon afterwards but his grandmother refused to lend him the £50 asking price, stating: "I will not have Victorian junk in my flat". Ha! It was auctioned shortly after, during a period of time known to be difficult for selling Victorian era paintings, where it failed to sell for its low reserve price of US$140 (the equivalent of $1,126 in modern prices).

In 1963 Luis A Ferre' – the noted Puerto Rican industrialist and politician– was on a trip around Europe, engaged in purchasing paintings and sculptures for the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico, which he had founded. "It’s extremely curious to know that this work of such late Victorian importance was bought in Amsterdam by Luis A. Ferre for less than $1,000 dollars. Can you imagine??

The woman who inspired Flaming June was his friend and protege' for several decades, Dorothy Dene, or Maty Lloyd (also used by JW Waterhouse) She also modeled for many of his other paintings.

He died in 1896 of heart failure, this was one of his last works.

The second picture is Lord Leighton.

♦ All wall art is printed on a durable canvas that mimics an actual painting.  Being canvas, has texture. It doesn't buckle, tear or crease like paper posters and it also doesn't have that annoying glare like paper. I can't tell you how many I've had that get torn and bent and ripped. Ive had paper prints that ripple with humidity, even after framing. Canvas just won't do that. They also won't fade and the colors are so beautiful and true and the details are impeccable. You can actually see the brushstrokes and the crazing of the paint. And they're so much easier to frame! Or just hang them as they are.

♦ These are shipped rolled in a protective tube. 

♦ Shipping deal is for 2 or more prints. Pay to ship the first one, all others in the same order, ride for free!

♦ I'm sure you all know this but I have to actually put it on here...These are PRINTS. Not actual paintings. 

♦ This is for the print only, No frame is included

♦ I believe everyone should have art in their home, no matter what the form. I'm trying to keep these prices low for just that reason. This does NOT reflect on their quality. I just really want people to be able to afford these and to enjoy them...and who doesn't want a copy of a $4 million dollar painting for $16?

♦ As of now, I have a somewhat limited stock. As they sell and as I see what people like, I will stock more and more sizes. I am trying to vary them (not just what I like) so check back often!