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 LEKOUX tany. Medals : 1864 ; 3d class, 1873 ; 2cl class, 1875 ; L. of Honour, 1871. Works : New-Born Baby (1864), Luxembourg Mu- seum ; Death-Bed (18G8) ; Watching a Corpse, Sleepy, The Bill (1872) ; Private Ambulance (1875) ; Czar Alexander H. giv- ing an Audience (1880); Elder Sister (1882); River Isole (1883); Summer Evening (1885); Orphans, Miss C. L. Wolfe, New York. Bellior, i. 1022 ; Miiller, 334. LEKOUX, HECTOIt, born at Verdun (Meuse), Dec. 27, 1829. Genre painter, pupil of Picot and of Ecole des Beaux Arts ; won the 2d grand prix in 1857. Paints an- tique scenes with skill and archaeological knowledge. Medals : 3d class, 18G3, 1S(I4 ; 2d class, 1874 ; 3d class, 1878 ; L. of Honour, 1877. Works : A New Vestal (1803), Verdun Museum ; Funeral in the Columbarium of the House of the Cicsars (18G4), Luxembourg Muse- um ; Slave of Horace (1865), J. P. Morgan, New York ; Ancient Serenade (I860), St. Germain Museum ; Improvisator with Sal- lust (1866); Messalina, The Sorceress (18G8); Miracle in House of the Bona Dea (1869) ; The r^tul Tuccia (1874), Corcoran Gallery, Washington ; Obsequies of Themistocles (1876); Trial of a Vestal (1876), C. P. Hunt- ington, New York ; Dana'ides, William As- tor, ib. ; The Vestal Claudia Quinta (1877) ; Little Orphans, Descent of Minerva Polias on the Acropolis (1878) ; School of Vestal* (1880), J. J. Astor, New York ; Vestals Asleep (1880); Hcrculanenm on Aug. 23, A.D. 70 (1881), John G. Johnson, Philadelphia ; The Fishermen (1882); Sacrarium, The Tiber (1883) ; Seat in the Amphitheatre, College of Vestals flying from Rome (1884); Mysterious Stone of Pompeii, Se'ila, Daugh- ter of Jephtha (1885) ; Trial of Aurelia and Pompouia, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn ; Prayer to .iEsculapius, M. Brimmer, Boston ; Sup- plicants to Hygieia, W. Richmond, Provi- dence. Montrosier, i. ; Miiller, 334. LE SENKCHAL DE KERDREORET, GASTON EDOUARD, born at Hennebout (Morbihan), Oct. 9, 1860. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of Jules Noel. Medal, 3d class, 1883. Works : Cliffs of Treport at Low Tide (1878) ; Sea Baths of Port- Louis, Low Tide at Veules-en-Caux (1879) ; Fishery, ib. (1880) ; Low Tide at Treport (1881) ; November, ib. (1882) ; Departure of Fishermen in Rough Weather (1883) ; Preparations for Herring Fishing, Street at Mers-les-Baius (1884). LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT, born in Clerkenwell, Lon- don, Oct. 11, 1794, died in London, May 5, 1859. His father, a watch- maker of Philadel- phia, returned to America in 1800, and on his death (1804) Charles was apprenticed to a bookseller ; but in a few years he was en- abled to go to London, where he became a student at the Royal Academy (1813). Al- though his first pictures were meritorious, it was not until his return from the Couti- ' neiit in 1817 that he displayed his special talent, in the picture of Slender and Anne Page. Two years later he exhibited his Sir Roger de Coverley (Marquis of Lansdowne), which left him without a rival in this class of subjects. He became an A.R.A. in 1821, and R.A. in 1826. In 1833 he accepted the professorship of drawing at West Point, but held the position only a few months. On his return to England the same year he painted several pictures from the great po- ets, and two historical pieces for the Queen, her Coronation (1838), and the Baptism of ] the Princess Royal. From 1847 to 1852 he was professor of painting at the Royal Acad- , emy. His somewhat formal and theatrical compositions are enlivened by a vein of