Colour sketch for the painting Flaming June by Lord Frederic Leighton
Illustrated is one of Lord Frederic Leighton’s most famous compositions Flaming June. This 41/2in by 41/4in colour sketch for the painting was understandably one of the sensations of Sotheby’s dispersal of the Leverhulme Collection at Thornton Manor, Merseyside, on June 26-28.
The first Lord Leverhulme was a Victorian industrialist in the grand manner, and his art collection …