The artist Frederic Leighton was a figure of great distinction in Victorian society. As a notable president of the Royal
Academy, his sensuous paintings were widely admired, but his private life became a matter of speculation. Tim Barringer visits Leighton's exotic
London house and talks to art historians Liz Prettejohn and Christopher Newall about the ideals and ambitions that fired his life and work. Reader Keith
Drinkel.
