LEBSCIIEE age of sixteen had painted many portraits, landscape painter, pupil of Munich Academy In 1774 she was made a member of the under W. von Kobell, Wagenbauer, Dillis, Academy of St. Luke, and in 1783 of the j and Dorner ; excelled especially in water- French Academy. Long before this she colours. Works : Twenty-seven Memorial had married a picture-dealer named Le ' Leaves from Munich's Past, City Hall, Mu- Brun, who made a very free use of the I uich ; Ninety-six Views of Bavarian Castles money which she earned. At the outbreak and Towns, Historical Society of Upper Ba- of the Revolution Mine. Le Brun went to varia. Allgem. d. Biogr., xviii. 103 ; All- Italy, painted at Naples Lady Hamilton as 'gem. Zeitg., July 2, 1877, Beilage, 183; a Bacchante, and was made associate mem- ] Kuust-Chronik, xii. 643 ; xiv. 754 ; Nagler, ber of the Academies of Bologna and Parma. Mon., i. 939 ; ii. 122. Before returning to France in 1801 she vis- LECLAIRE, VICTOR, born in Paris, ited Germany and Russia, and was made , Dec. 21, 1830, died there in Jan., 1885. associate of the Academics of Berlin, St. Pe- Landscape and flower painter, pupil of his terburg, Copenhagen, and Geneva. Later brother, Leon Louis Leclaire (born June 4, she visited England, Holland, and Switzer- 1829). Medals : 3d class, 1879 ; 2d class, land, and in 1808 painted Mine, de Stacl at 1881. Works : Resting in the Woods, Coppet. In 1809 she settled at Marly, and Souvenir of the Woods of Meudon (1868) ; at the age of eighty painted an admirable : Flowers, Persian Armour and Japanese Ar- portrait of her niece, Mine, von Riviere, tides, Fish and Plums, My Cousin's Studio In 1835 she published her reminiscences. (1874) ; Winter Flowers (1879) ; Autumn During her life she painted 662 portraits, Flowers (1879), Luxembourg Museum ; 200 landscapes, and 15 historical pictures. | Field Flowers, Hunting Day (1880) ; Last Works: Peace bringing Abundance (1780), Flowers of Autumn (1881); Flowers (1882); Portrait of herself and Daughter (2), Por- Anxiety, Team of Oxen (1883); Chrysanthe- trait of Paisiello (1791), Portrait of Hubert mums, Summer Flowers (1884) ; Courtyard Robert (1788), Portrait of Joseph Vernet Interior (1885). (1778), Louvre ; Hebe, Bordeaux Museum ; I LE CLEAR, THOMAS, born in Owego, Venus tying the Wings of Love; Modesty N. Y., March 11, 1818. Portrait painter; and a Vestal (Le Brun sale, 1842, 1,500 fr.); self-taught. About 1832 painted portraits Marie Antoinette and her Three Children, ' in London, Canada ; in 1839 settled perma- Versailles Museum ; Portrait of Maria Caro- nently in New York, exhibiting at the Na- line Wife of Ferdinand IV. King of Naples ; tional Academy and occasionally at the do. of their Daughter the Princess Christina, l Royal Academy, London. Elected N. A. in /l/f'** T 7") Madrid Mu- 18G3. Works: Itinerant; Marble-Players, fr] I p I)*. seum; Madame Art Union; Young America; Landscape / /> >Q rWA, de Stai-1, Musc'e (1881). Portraits : McEntee ; Booth as ,- ' '. Rath, Geneva. : Hamlet ; President Fillmore, Dr. Vinton, /ft)' P Belli er, i. Daniel R. Dickinson (1870) ; E. W. Stough- < C l/CQeZ oZe 947; G u h 1 ; ton, Bayard Taylor, Parke Godwin (1877) ; <// Vi'f Gh. Blanc, Ecole William Page (1878), Corcoran Gallery, lAJ/Tl^ /O f r a n 9 a i s e ; Washington ; George Bancroft, Century Wurzbach, Fr. Mai. des xviii. Jahrh., 11 ; Club, New York ; William Cullen Bryant Lejeune, Guide, i. 307 ; Larousse ; Wes- sely, 39, LEBSCHKE, KARL AUGUST, born at Schmiegel, Posen, July 27, 1800, died in Munich, June 13, 1877. Architecture and (1880) ; S. R. Gifford (1881). LE CLERC, SEBASTIEN, the younger, born in Paris, Sept. 29, 1676, died there, June 29, 1763. French school ; history and genre painter, son and pupil of the
