Flaming June, once a student poster favourite, returns to London home

The only colour study by Frederic Leighton for his famous painting is set to go on show at restored museum

Flaming June, surely the most romantic and summery of all well-known British paintings, is finally returning home, to the London house where Frederic Leighton first imagined his fiery image almost 130 years ago.

Now, as temperatures rise in the run-up to June, the museum in the artist's former home has been unexpectedly given the smaller, first version of the world-famous work that Leighton painted in 1894.