Works Charles Robert Leslie

les femmes savantes (1845), scene molière play



uncle toby , widow wadman laurence sterne s life , opinions of tristram shandy, gentleman

individual paintings of note include:

sir roger de coverley going church (1819);
may-day in time of queen elizabeth (1821)
portrait of gentleman (1823)
sancho panza , duchess (1824)
uncle toby , widow wadman (1831)
le malade imaginaire, act iii. sc. 6 (1843)
our saviour teaching disciples lesson humility (1844)
the pharisee , publican (1847)
the reading lesson etching raffaelle (1848)
duke s chaplain enraged leaving table, don quixote (1849)
martha , mary (1849)
the mother s return child (1849)

several works commissioned , bought james lenox. works on display in lenox library, upon demolition, donated new york public library. many of more important subjects exist in varying replicas.

leslie possessed sympathetic imagination, enabled him enter freely spirit of author whom illustrated, delicate perception female beauty, unfailing eye character , outward manifestation in face , figure, , genial , sunny sense of humour, guided instinctive refinement prevented overstepping bounds of taste.

in addition skill artist, leslie ready , pleasant writer. life of friend constable, landscape painter, appeared in 1843 regarded 1 of classics of artistic biography, writing handbook young painters, volume embodying substance of lectures professor of painting royal academy, in 1855. in 1860, tom taylor edited autobiography , letters, contain interesting reminiscences of distinguished friends , contemporaries. leslie s letters paint man affectionate, social, candid, modest , eager instruction , improvement, seeking society of best , eminent of persons whom gain access without intrusion or forwardness. taylor finished leslie s life , times of sir joshua reynolds, published in 1865.