Andrew Lloyd Webber

Dubbed “the most wonderful painting in existence,” Frederic Leighton's “Flaming June” is now owned by a Puerto Rican museum.

[Courtauld Institute](https://courtauld.ac.uk/), once called “the most wonderful painting in existence.” But let me at least take a stab. The format is square, with sides of 47 inches, and its dominant subject, loosely based on a famous Michelangelo sculpture (the female personification of “Night” in the To be thinking about “Flaming June” in such a context is to be haunted by varieties of cognitive dissonance. He painted “Flaming June” at the end of his life. In the meantime, of course, He asked his grandmother to lend him the 50 pounds the shop was asking, but she refused: “I will not have Victorian junk in my flat,” she explained.