ib.; Mary Stuart in Prison, F. Harper, ib.; Quarrel of the Pets, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Visit to the Château, D. W. Powers, Rochester; Appointment, C. H. Wolff, Philadelphia; In the Library, Borie Collection, ib.; Interior of a Studio, T. Dolan, ib.; Sans Invitation, W. B. Bement, ib.; After the Audience, J. W. Bates, ib.; Five Minutes too Late, Fairman Rogers, ib.; Marie Antoinette at Versailles, Charles Crocker, San Francisco; Reception of the Ambassador, T. Wigglesworth, Boston; Introduction, W. Mason, Taunton; Hardwick Castle, R. C. Taft, Providence; Fencing Lesson, D. T. Buzby, Baltimore; Ancient Régime, G. Hoadly, Cincinnati; Return from the Hunt, H. B. Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland.—Müller, 162; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xvii. 281.
LEON LEAL, SIMON DE, born in Madrid
in 1610, died there in 1687. Spanish
school; pupil of Pedro de las Cuevas, but
improved his style by copying Van Dyck.
Painted altar-pieces and other religious compositions.—Stirling,
ii. 720.
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LEONARDO, JOSÉ, born at Calatayud,
Aragon, in 1616, died at Saragossa in 1656.
Spanish school; pupil of Pedro de las Cuevas,
but imitated the manner of Velasquez;
became one of the king's painters, and gave
promise of a brilliant future, when he lost
his reason from the effects of poison, administered,
it is said, by a rival. Works:
Surrender of Breda, Episode of the Thirty
Years' War, Madrid Museum.—Stirling, ii.
721; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Cean
Bermudez; Madrazo, 426.
LEONARDO DA VINCI. See Vinci.
LEONE. See Leoni.
LEONHARDI, AUGUST EDUARD, born
at Freiburg, Saxony, Jan. 19, 1826. Landscape
painter, pupil of Dresden Academy
under Ludwig Richter; spent some years in
Düsseldorf, and settled at Loschwitz, near
Dresden. Works: Trout-Fishing; Spring;
Forest Border; Solitude; View in Saxon
Switzerland; German Wood Landscape
(1863), Dresden Museum; Swampy Country
in Autumn; Moonrise in the Woods.—Illustr.
Zeitg. (1884), i. 479; Müller, 333.
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LEONI (Leone), OTTAVIO, Cavaliere,
born in Rome about
1575, died after June,
1628. Roman school;
son of Lodovico Leoni,
a painter of Padua,
whence Ottavio
was sometimes called
Il Padovanino. He
was one of the ablest
portrait painters of
his time, popes, cardinals,
and the nobility being among his
sitters. He also engraved many heads of
painters and others. Among his figure-*pieces
are: Annunciation, S. Eustachio,
Rome; Madonna with St. Hyacinth, S. M.
Sopra Minerva, Rome. He was prince of
the Academy of St. Luke, and was made a
knight of the Order of Christ by Gregory
XV.—Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne.
LEONIDAS, painter, of Anthedon, pupil
of Euphranor, 4th century B.C. Brunn (ii.
164) thinks him identical with the architect
who wrote on proportion mentioned by
Vitruvius (vii. Præf. 14).—Steph. Byz., v.;
Eust. Ad. Hom. Il., ii. 271, 38.
LEONIDAS AT THERMOPYLÆ,
Jacques Louis David, Louvre, Paris; canvas,
H. 12 ft. 10 in. × 17 ft. 6 in.; signed,
dated 1814. Leonidas, holding his arms,
is seated upon a rock near the altar of Hercules;
beside him, at right, Agis, brother
of his wife, is putting on his helmet, while
two young Spartans take their arms, which
are suspended from a tree; at left, a soldier
and the blind Eurytus; a troop of Spartans
advance to the sound of trumpets; a soldier
upon a rock engraves an inscription
with his sword; a sentinel on the steps of
a temple signals the approach of the Persians.
The last picture painted by David
