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LEUX vania Academy, Philadelphia ; Columbus at Gate of La Rabida Monastery (1844); John Kuox and Mary Stuart (1845) ; Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth on a Walk (1845) ; English Iconoclasts, Torquemada persuading King Ferdinand to dismiss Em- bassy of the Jews (1846) ; Henry VIII. and Anna Boleyn in the Park, Puritan surpris- ing his Daughter before a Madonna, Festive Reception of Columbus on his First Return from America (1847) ; Storming of the Teo- calli (1848) ; Charles I. signing Stratford's Death Warrant (1849) ; Washington crossing the Delaware (1850, Gold medal in Berlin), Bremen Gallery ; replica (1851) ; Battle of Moumouth (1852-54); Departure of Colum- bus from Palos (twice), Rose of Alhambra (1855) ; Last Soiree of Charles II., Light and Shade (185G) ; Wood Nymph, Crom- well's Visit to Milton (1857), Corcoran Gal- lery, Washington ; Titian's Sail on the La- goon, Defeat of General Braddock, Return of Frederick II. from Spandau (1857); Anna Boleyn persuading Henry VIII. to dismiss Cardinal Wolsey, Scene from Paradise and Peri, Sergeant Jasper saving the American Flag (1858); Slar of Empire (1859), Capi- tol, Washington ; Maid of Saragossa, Ve- netian Masqueraders (1860) ; Lafayette in Prison at Olmiitz visited by his Relatives, Settlement of Maryland by the English under Leonard Calvert (1861) ; Elizabeth visited in Prison by Archbishop Crantner (1862) ; First Landing of Columbus in America, Emigrants attacked by Indians (1863) ; Venice Victorious, Departure of Moors from Alhambra, Merry Wives of Windsor, Margaret of Branksome, Mary Stuart hearing First Mass on Return to Scotland, Cromwell examining State Docu- ments, Lady Godiva, Elaine, Bride of Christ, Scene from Bulwer's Richelieu (1864-68) ; The Poet's Dream, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia ; Portraits of Washington, Lin- coln, General Grant, General Burnside, Louis Lang, Colonel Lottuer, of himself, New York Academy. Allgem. d. Biogr., xviii. 500 ; Blanckarts, 18 ; Kunst-Chronik, iii. 188 ; Wolfg. Miillcr, Diisseldf. K., 135 ; Reber, iii. 194, 323 ; Springer, 158 ; Tuckerman, 333 ; do., Artist Life (New York, 1847), 171; Laud mid Meer (1870), i. 94 ; Wiegmann, 240. LEUX. See Luycx. LEVY, EMILE, born in Paris, Aug. 29, 1826. Genre and por- trait painter, pupil of Abel de Pujol, Picot, and of the Kcole des Beaux Arts ; won the grand prix de Rome in 1854. Since 1877 he has chiefly devoted himself to portrait painting. Medals : 3d class, 1859, 1864, 1866, 1867; 1st class, 1878 ; L. of Honour, 1867. Works : Noah cursing Canaan (1855), Aurillac Mu- seum ; Supper of the Martyrs (1859), Ami- ens Museum ; Ruth and Naomi (1859), Rou- eu Museum ; Haymaking (1861) ; Verciuge- torix surrendering to Crosar, Venus putting on her Belt, Holding Mass in the fields (1863) ; Idyl (1864) ; Diana (1865) ; Death of Orpheus (1866), Luxembourg Museum ; Rainbow, Lilacs (1868) ; Music, Hesitation (1869); Midas' Decision (1870), Montpellier Museum ; Scene in the Fields (1870) ; The Letter, Girl carrying Fruit (1872) ; A Path, A Child (1873) "; Love and Folly (1874) ; The Brook, The Boat, Willow Tree, Woman Bathing (1876) ; The Meta Sudans (1877) ; Caligula (1878) ; Young Mother nursing her Child (1881) ; Infancy (1885) ; The Foun- tain Basin, Laon Museum ; Love of Money, Nantes Museum ; Idyl, Pau Museum ; The Stars, The Elements, Salon of Ministry of State, Louvre ; Presentation of the Virgin, Trinity Church, Paris. Bellier, i. 1042 ; Revue des Deux Mondes (1866), Ixiii. 703 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 498 ; Claretie, Peintres (1874), 324 ; Miiller, 335. LtiVY, (HENRI) LEOPOLD, born at Nancy, Sept. 23, 1840. Genre painter, pu- pil of Picot, Cabanel, and Fromentin. His dramatic and brilliantly colored mythologi- 73