Who painted “Flaming June”?

“Flaming June” was painted by Frederic Leighton in 1895. Where to see it: Museo de Arte de Ponce.

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Pre-Raphaelite: intense colour, hard-edged detail everywhere at once, flowing hair and medieval or literary subjects; Academic art of the time is smoother and more classical.

Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British Victorian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. Wikipedia

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More by Frederic Leighton

“Perseus and Andromeda”, 1891
“The Bath of Psyche”, 1890
“Cymon and Iphigenia”, 1884
“Captive Andromache”, 1888
“Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna”, 1854
“The Fisherman and the Syren”, 1858
“The Painter's Honeymoon”, 1864
“Nausicaa”, 1878