humour which shows itself especially in his treatment of Shakespearean subjects. He was a good draughtsman and colourist, though he had a tendency to blackness in his shadows, and a want of feeling for those transparent and harmonious middle tones which should unite them with the higher lights. Among his best known works are: Uncle Toby and Widow Wadman (1831), Sancho Panza and the Duchess, National Gallery; Florizel and Perdita (1837), Taming the Shrew (1832), Autolycus (1836), Queen Catherine and Patience (1839), Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1841), Les Femmes Savantes (1845), Who can this be? (1839), Who can this be from? (1839), Le Malade imaginaire (1843), South Kensington Museum; Dinner at Page's House (1831), Lady Lawley (?); Murder of Rutland by Lord Clifford, Sterne and the Chaise Vamper's Wife, Uncle Toby and Widow Wadman, Olivia (Twelfth Night), Musidora, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia.—Autobiographical Recollections, with essay by Tom Taylor (London, 1860); Redgrave, Century; Art Journal (1856), 73, 105; Sandby, ii. 39; Hamerton, Thoughts about Art, 304.
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LESLIE, GEORGE DUNLOP, born in
London, July 2, 1835.
Subject painter, son
and pupil of C. R. Leslie;
student in schools
of Royal Academy in
1854; exhibited two
pictures in Royal
Academy in 1857;
elected A.R.A. in 1868,
and R.A. in 1876.
Works: Reminiscences of the Ball (1859);
Meditation, Matilda, Bethlehem (1860); Fast
Day at the Convent (1861); Summer Song
(1862); Lost Carcanet, War Summons (1863);
Flower and the Leaf (1864); Defence of
Lathom House (1865); Clarissa (1866); Willow
Willow, Country Cousins, Ten Minutes
to Decide, Rose Harvest (1867); Home
News, Empty Sleeve (1868); Cupid's Curse,
Celia's Arbour (1869); Nausicaä and her
Maids (1871); Lavinia, Elopement, Lucy
and Puck (1872); Nut-Brown Maid, Five
o'Clock (1874); School Revisited, Banks of
the Thames in A.D. 200 (1875); Roses, Violet,
Lavender (1876); Cowslips, Lass of Richmond
Hill (1877); Home, Sweet Home (1878);
Alice in Wonderland (1879); Hen and Chickens
(1881); Molly, Pique, Daughter of Charity
(1882); Daughters of Eve, Wayside Rest
(1883); Benson Ferry, Thames Roses (1884).—Meynell,
124; Portfolio (1870), 177.
LESSER, ALEXANDER, born in Warsaw
in 1812, died there, March 7, 1884.
History painter, pupil of Warsaw, Dresden,
and Munich Academies, at the latter under
Cornelius and Schnorr; returned to Warsaw
and attained great popularity among
his countrymen by painting scenes from
Polish history. Works: David's Thanks
for his Victory over Goliath; Daughters of
the Cid (Villa Rosenstein, near Stuttgart);
Young Boleslav III. begging his Father's
Permission to fight against the Moravians;
Defence of Trembowla against the Turks,
Gotha Gallery; Kadlubek, Heinrich von
Liegnitz taking Farewell of St. Hedwig;
Finding of Heinrich's Body on Battlefield of
Liegnitz; Finding of Wanda's Body; Prussia's
Allegiance; Ascension; Magdalen;
portraits of all the Polish kings.—Dioskuren
(1873), 464; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 396;
Müller, 335.
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LESSING, KARL FRIEDRICH, born in
Breslau, Feb. 15, 1808,
died in Carlsruhe, June
5, 1880. History and
landscape painter, pupil
at Berlin Academy
of Rösel and Dähling,
then of Schadow, whom
in 1826 he followed to
Düsseldorf, where he
rapidly established his
reputation. His first works, exhibited in
Berlin in 1828 and 1830, which created
great interest, were followed by an excellent
series of historical and landscape paint-
