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Leighton House is an historic house in the Holland Park area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London. The building was the home of wealthy Victorian painter, and President of the Royal Academy, Frederic Leighton (1830–1896), notable for the popular Flaming June painting. Leighton commissioned George Aitchison to build him a combined home and studio, to which later was added a qa'a which incorporated tiles and other elements purchased in the Near East during Leighton's travels. The resulting building, completed between 1866 and 1895 on the privately owned Ilchester Estate, is now Grade II* listed. It is noted for its elaborate Orientalist and aesthetic interiors, and is open to the public as both an historic house and an art museum.
