Paris; Eustache Le Sueur; Benjamin West; Eugène Delacroix (1850); Verdier, St. Germain-des-Prés, Paris.
LAZERGES, HIPPOLYTE (JEAN RAYMOND),
born at Narbonne (Aude), July 5,
1817. Genre painter, pupil of David d'Angers
and Bouchot. Paints religious pictures
and oriental scenes with care, but without
much grasp of subject. Has executed works
in Notre Dame de Bon Secours, near Rouen,
and in the Nantes Theatre. Medals: 3d
class, 1843; 2d class, 1848, 1857; Legion
of Honour, 1867. Works: Descent from
Cross (1843), Chapel of Château d'Eu; Christ
in the Garden (1844), Hospital at Beaune;
The Virgin interceding for Sinners (1848),
Limoges Museum; Springtime personified
by Young Girl (1849), Roanne Museum;
Genius extinguished by Pleasure (1850),
Carcassonne Museum; Susanna Bathing;
Descent from Cross (1855), Luxembourg
Museum; Albani in his Studio (1857), Narbonne
Museum; Napoleon III. aiding the
Inundated at Lyons (1857), Lyons Museum;
Peter's Denial (1859), Montpellier Museum;
Kabyles Harvesting (1861), Tarbes Museum;
Dance of the Aissaouas (1861), Perpignan
Museum; Christ bearing the Cross
(1870), Orléans Museum; Eve (1872);
Christ of the 19th Century (1873); Stabat
Mater (1874); Christ led to Prison, Resurrection,
Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette
at Versailles (1876); Falma the Singer,
Moors in Court of the Marabout (1877); A
Waif (1883); Kabyle Women (1884); Descent
from the Cross (1885).—Bellier, i.
935; Bitard, 789; Vapereau.
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LAZERGES, JEAN BAPTISTE PAUL, born in Paris, Jan. 10, 1845. Genre and portrait painter, son and pupil of preceding. Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works: Portrait of Sara Bernhardt (1870); The Bath (1875); Banks of the Brook (1877); Repose in Algiers (1881); Arab Marching (1882); Storyteller in Algiers (1883); End of Day, ib. (1884); Caravan, ib. (1885).—Bellier, i. 935.
LAZZARINI, GREGORIO, born at Villanuova
in 1657, died in Venice in 1735 (?).
Venetian school; history painter, pupil of
Francesco Rosa, of Genoa, whose sombre
style he not only abandoned, but altogether
banished from the Venetian school,
of which, for accuracy of design and taste
in composition, he must be pronounced the
leader during that period. Works: Hercules
and Omphale, Astronomy, Cassel Gallery;
Venus in a Shell drawn by Dolphins,
Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Moses striking
the Rock, The Fall of Manna, Abraham's
Sacrifice, Charity, Academy, Venice;
Bacchanale, Portrait of himself, Museo Civico,
ib.; Male portraits (2), Bergamo Gallery;
Portrait of the Patriarch Lorenzo
Giustiniani.—Lanzi (Roscoe), ii. 297; Wurzbach,
xiv. 261.
LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS,
born in Worcester,
March 12, 1831.
Real name Benjamin
Williams;
assumed surname
Leader as a distinction.
Landscape
painter; pupil of
Royal Academy
schools. Elected
an A.R.A. in 1883.
Works: Welsh Churchyard (1863); Through
the Glen (1867); Wild Wales (1872);
Thames at Streatly (1874); English Hayfield
(1876); Lucerne, Lauterbrunnen
(1877); Autumn in Switzerland, Summer
in Worcestershire (1878); English Hayfield
(1879); In the Evening there shall be Light
(1882); Parting Day, Green Pastures and
Still Waters, Autumn Evening (1883); The
Rivulet, The Ploughman (1884).—Art Journal
(1871), 45.
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LEANDRO, ST., Murillo, Seville Cathedral; canvas, H. 6 ft. 2 in. × 5 ft. 6 in.
