LAZEIIGES Paris ; Eustache Le Sneur ; Benjamin West; Eugene Delacroix (1850) ; Verdier, St. Ger- main-des-Pn's, Paris. LAZERGES, HIPPOLYTE (JEAN RAY- MOND), born at Narbonne (Atide), July 5, 1817. Genre painter, pupil of David d' An- gers and Bouchot. Paints religious pictures and oriental scenes with care, but without much grasp of subject. Has executed works in Notre Dame de Bon Secours, near Rouen, and in the Nantes Theatre. Medals : 3d class, 1843 ; 2tl class, 1848, 1857 ; Legion of Honour, 18G7. Works : Descent from Cross (1843), Chapel of Chateau d'Eu; Christ in the Garden (1844), Hospital at Beaune ; The Virgin interceding for Sinners (1848), Limoges Museum ; Springtime personified by Young Girl (1849), Roanne Museum ; Genius extinguished by Pleasure (1850), Carcassonne Museum ; Susanna Bathing ; Descent from Cross (1855), Luxembourg Museum ; Albani in his Studio (1857), Nar- bonne Museum ; Napoleon III. aiding the Inundated at Lyons (1857), Lyons Museum ; Peter's Denial (1859), Montpellier Museum ; Kabyles Harvesting (1861), Tarbes Muse- um ; Dance of the Aissaouas (18(51), Per- pignan Museum ; Christ bearing the Cross (1870), Orleans Museum; Eve (1872); Christ of the 19th Century (1873) ; Stabat Mater (1874) ; Christ led to Prison, Resur- rection, Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette at Versailles (187G) ; Fulma the Singer, Moors in Court of the Marabout (1877) ; A Waif (1883) ; Kabyle Women (1884) ; De- scent from the Cross (1885). Bellier, i. 935 ; Bitard, 789 ; Vapereau. LAZERGES, JEAN BAPTISTE PAUL, born in Paris, Jan. 10, 1845. Genre and portrait painter, son and pupil of preceding. Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works : Portrait of Sara Bernhardt (1870) ; The Bath (1875) ; Banks of the Brook (1877) ; Repose in Al- giers (1881) ; Arab Marching (1882) ; Story- teller in Algiers (1883) ; End of Day, i'b. (1884) ; Caravan, ib. (1885). Beliier, i. 935. LAZZARINI, GREGORIO, born atVilla- nuova in 1G57, died in Venice in 1735 (?). Venetian school ; history painter, pupil of Francesco Rosa, of Genoa, whose sombre style he not only abandoned, but alto- gether banished from the Venetian school, of which, for accuracy of design and taste in composition, he must be pronounced the leader during that period. Works : Her- j cules and Omphale, Astronomy, Cassel Gal- lery ; Venus in a Shell drawn by Dolphins, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna ; Moses strik- ing the Rock, The Fall of Manna, Abra- ham's Sacrifice, Charity, Academy, Venice ; Bacchanale, Portrait of himself, Museo Civ- ico, ib. ; Male portraits (2), Bergamo Gal- lery ; Portrait of the Patriarch Lorenzo Giustiniani. Lanzi (Roscoe), ii. 297 ; Wurz- bach, xiv. 2G1. LEADER, BENJAMIN born in Worcester, March 12, 1831. Real name Ben- jamin Williams ; assumed surname Leader as a distinc- tion. Landscape painter ; pupil of Royal Academy schools. Elected an A.R.A. in 1883. Works : Welsh Churchyard (18G3) ; Through the Glen (18G7) ; Wild Wales (1872); Thames at Streatly (1874) ; English Hay- field (1876); Lucerne, Lauterbrunnen (1877) ; Autumn in Switzerland, Summer in Worcestershire (1878) ; English Hayfield (1879) ; In the Evening there shall be Light (1882) ; Parting Day, Green Pastures and Still Waters, Autumn Evening (1883) ; The Rivulet, The Ploughman (1884). Art Jour- nal (1871), 45. LEANDRO, ST., Murillo, Seville Cathe- dral ; canvas, H. G ft. 2 in. x 5 ft. G in. WILLIAMS,
