(1853).—Allgem. d. Biogr., xviii. 241; Förster, Cornelius, ii. 331.
LEMUD, FRANÇOIS JOSEPH AIMÉ
DE, born at Thionville, Lorraine; contemporary.
History painter, pupil of École des
Beaux Arts at Metz. Medals: 3d class,
1844, 1863; L. of Honour, 1865. Works:
Infancy of Callot (1839); Helene Adelsfreit
(1843); The Swallows (1844); Moses (1864);
Fall of Adam (1865), Nancy Museum; Holy
Family (1869); The Prisoner, Metz Museum.
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LE NAIN (the Brothers), ANTOINE,
LOUIS (called the Roman), and MATHIEU,
born at Laon (Aisne) about 1598,
1593, 1607. French school; they painted
domestic and rural scenes. When Antoine
became master in St. Germain des Près, his
brothers were his apprentices. In 1633
Mathieu came to Paris, where the three
brothers lived together for many years. In
1648 they were all received into the Academy.
Antoine and Louis died two months
later, May 26th and May 23d. Mathieu, who
especially excelled in portraiture, died April
20, 1677. Works: Procession in Interior
of Church (attributed); Blacksmith in his
Smithy, Adoration of Shepherds, Interior of
Farm-House, Village Scene, Peasant's Repast
(1642), Louvre; Birth of the Virgin,
St. Étienne du Mont, Paris; Visitation, St.
Laurent; Presentation in Temple, Convent
of the Temple; Eating Oysters, Body-Guard,
M. George, Paris; Harvesters, M. de St. Albin;
Interior of Farm-House, M. de Montalivet;
Visitation, St. Denis, Libourne; Rural
Interior, Rouen Museum; Men playing
Cards, Valenciennes Museum; St. Michael
offering his Weapons to the Virgin, Nevers
Museum; Nativity, Angers Museum; Portrait
of Sieur de Marquéglise, Chartres Museum;
Children quarrelling, Douai Museum;
Interior Scene, Nancy Museum; The Virgin,
St. Ann and Infant Christ with Angels,
Rennes Museum; Rustic Scene, Interior of
Peasant's Cottage, Vegetable Seller, Gotha
Museum; Five Peasant Children Singing
and Playing, Leipsic Museum; An Artist
painting Lady's Portrait, Old Pinakothek,
Munich; Entertainment of People of Lower
Classes, Count Peter Schuvaloff, St. Petersburg;
Adoration of the Shepherds, Uffizi,
Florence; Mendicants, New York Museum;
Portrait of Marie de Medicis, Adoration of
Shepherds,
Florence Gallery;
The Fife-Player,
Stafford
House;
Le Nain's Studio,
Luton House.—Ch. Blanc, École française,
i.; Champfleury, Nouvelles recherches
sur la vie et l'œuvre des frères Le Nain
(Laon, 1862); Gaz. des Beaux Arts (1860),
viii 173, 266, 321; (1861), xi. 542; (1865),
xviii. 111; xix. 43; Jal, 767.
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LENBACH, FRANZ, born at Schrobenhausen,
Bavaria,
Dec. 13, 1836.
Portrait painter
of rare excellence,
pupil of Munich
Academy and of
Gräfle, then of
Piloty, whom in
1858 he accompanied
to Rome;
painted at first
genre scenes, and on his return to Munich
exhibited his Forum Romanum, which attracted
attention. In 1860 he became
professor at the Weimar Art-School, but
resigned in 1862 and went to Italy and
Spain, where he studied and copied, for
Baron Schack's Gallery in Munich, after the
old masters. After his return to Munich
he devoted himself exclusively to portrait
painting, imitating Rembrandt, and had
many orders, especially from Vienna, where
he worked in 1872-74; visited Morocco,
and with Makart and Leopold Müller spent
the winter of 1875-76 in Egpyt. Member
of Berlin Academy, 1883. Medals: Paris,
3d class, 1867; Munich, 1879; Vienna,
1882; Spanish Order of Charles, 1869.
Works: Peasant Family in approaching