- ing; Forest of Fontainebleau, Farm Interior
(1791); A Mine, Stable Interior (1795).—Immerzeel, ii. 166; Weale, Cat. Acad. de Bruges, 97.
LEGRAS, AUGUSTE, born at Périgueux
(Dordogne), June 2, 1817. History and
portrait painter, pupil of Bonnefond and
of Ary Scheffer. Medal, 3d class, 1857.
Works; Refugium Peccatorum, Mater Dolorosa
(1857); Return of the Holy Women
from Christ's Tomb (1859); The Jewels,
Little Charmer (1865); The Toilet—time
of Louis XIII. (1868); The Mirror, do.
(1869); Reverie, do. (1870); Child's Prayer
(1873); Arethusa (1874); Cherbourg Museum;
Mary Magdalen at the Foot of the
Cross (1877); The Four Ages (1881); Carmen
(1882); Ave Maria (1883); Little Violet
Seller in Time of Louis XV., An Amateur
Rat (1884).—Bellier, i. 977.
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LEGROS, ALPHONSE, born at Dijon,
May 8, 1837. History,
genre, and portrait
painter, pupil of
Lecoq de Boisbaudran
and École des
Beaux Arts; exhibited
at Salon of 1857
a notable portrait of
his father, and in
1859 The Angelus
(Seymour Haden,
London), which attracted attention; went in
1863 to London, where he still resides; became
professor of etching at South Kensington
Art School, and in 1876 succeeded E. J.
Pointer as Slade professor of fine arts at
University College, London. Noted also for
etchings and drawings in chalk and sepia;
has exhibited sculptures and bronzes at
Grosvenor Gallery. Medals: Paris, 1867,
1868. Works: Ex Voto (1861), Dijon Museum;
Messe des Morts (1863); Return of
the Prodigal (1865); Martyrdom of St.
Stephen (1866), Avranches Museum; Cupid
and Psyche (1867); Amende honorable
(1868), Luxembourg Museum; Demoiselles
du mois de Marie (1868), M. Miéville; Pilgrimage,
Liverpool Gallery; Chantres espagnols,
Benediction of the Sea, Eustace
Smith, London; The Coppersmith (1875),
C. A. Ionides, London; The Baptism (1877),
Sir George Howard; Repose of Day, Repas
des Pauvres (1878); Jacob's Dream (1879);
L'Incendie (1880); Old Wood-Burner, St.
Jerome (1881); Rocky Landscape, Women
praying in Church Porch (1884); Portraits
of Browning, Huxley, Burne-Jones, Gambetta,
etc.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 500;
(1876), xiii. 569; Portfolio (1875), 114;
Athenæum, 1873; Müller, 326; Art Journal
(1881), 294; Univ. Mag. (1880), v. 198.
LEHMANN, (KARL ERNST RUDOLF)
HEINRICH, born at Kiel, Schleswig, April
14, 1814, died in Paris, March 31, 1882.
History and portrait painter, son and pupil
of Leo Lehmann, then pupil of Ingres in
Paris. In 1837 he visited Munich, in 1838
Italy; then settled in Paris, became naturalized
(1847), and took rank among the most
distinguished painters of the capital. Medals:
2d class, 1835; 1st class, 1840, 1848,
1855; L. of Honour, 1846; Officer, 1853;
Member Institute, 1864; Member superior
council of the Beaux Arts, 1875; professor
in École des Beaux Arts. Works: Tobias
and the Angel (1835); Jephtha's Daughter
(1836); Don Diego, father of the Cid (1836),
Lyons Museum; The Fisherman (1837);
Death of Robert-le-Fort at Brisserte in 886,
Battle of Beaugé in 1421 (1837), Charles VII.
(2), Louis VIII., Hugues de Payens—first
Grandmaster of the Templars, Gabrielle
d'Estrées, Versailles Museum; St. Catherine
borne to the Tomb by Angels, Virgin with
Infant Jesus (1840); Flagellation of Christ,
St. Nicholas, Boulogne; Maruccia, Women
near the Water (1842); Faustina, Jeremiah
(1842), Angers Museum; The Creditors,
Hamlet, Ophelia (1846); At the Foot of
the Cross, Sirens (1848); Leonidas (1848),
Nantes Museum; Consolation of the Afflicted,
Assumption, Grief of the Oceanides
(1850), Luxembourg Museum; The Dream
(1852); Infant Jesus and Magi, Undine,
Venus Anadyomene, Dream of Erigone
