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 LESLIE humour which shows itself especially in his treatment of Shakespearean subjects. He was a good draughtsman and colourist, though he had a tendency to blackness in his shadows, and a want of feeling for those transparent and harmonious middle tones which should unite them with the higher lights. Among his best known works are : Uncle Toby and Widow Wadman (1831), Sancho Paiiza and the Duchess, National Gallery ; Florizel and Perdita (1837), Tam- ing the Shrew (1832), Autolycus (1830), Queen Catherine and Patience (1839), Le Bourgeois Geutilhomme (1841), Les Fem- mes Savantes (18-15), Who can this be ? (1839), Who can this be from ? (1839), Le Malade imaginaire (1843), South Kensing- ton Museum ; Dinner at Page's House (1831), Lady Lawley (?) ; Murder of Rutland by Lord Clifford, Sterne and the Chaise Vamper's Wife, Uncle Toby and Widow Wadman, Olivia (Twelfth Night), Musidora, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia. Au- tobiographical Recollections, with essay by Tom Taylor (London, 1860) ; Redgrave, Century ; Art Journal (185G), 73, 105 ; Sandby, ii. 39 ; Hamertou, Thoughts about Art, 304. LESLIE, GEORGE DUNLOP, born in London, July 2, 1835. Subject painter, son and pupil of C. R. Les- lie ; student in schools of Royal Academy in 1854 ; exhibited two pictures in Royal Academy in 1857; elected A.R. A. in 1868, and R.A. in 1876. Works : Reminiscences of the Ball (1859) ; Meditation, Matilda, Bethlehem (1860); Fast Day at the Convent (1861) ; Summer Song (1862) ; Lost Carcanet, War Summons (1863) ; Flower and the Leaf (1864) ; Defence of Lathom House (1865); Clarissa (1866); Wil- low Willow, Country Cousins, Ten Minutes to Decide, Rose Harvest (1867) ; Home News, Empty Sleeve (1868); Cupid's Curse, Celia's Arbour (1869) ; Nausicaii and her Maids (1871) ; Lavinia, Elopement, Lucy and Puck (1872) ; Nut-Browu Maid, Five o'Clock (1874) ; School Revisited, Banks of the Thames in A.D. 200 (1875); Roses, Violet, Lavender (1876) ; Cowslips, Lass of Rich- mond Hill(1877); Home, Sweet Home(1878); Alice in Wonderland (1879) ; Hen and Chick- ens (1881 ) ; Molly, Pique, Daughter of Char- ity (1882); Daughters of Eve, Wayside Rest (1883); Benson Ferry, Thames Roses (1884). Meynell, 124 ; Portfolio (1870), 177. LESSEE, ALEXANDER, born in War- saw in 1812, died there, March 7, 1884. History painter, pupil of Warsaw, Dresden, and Munich Academies, at the latter under Cornelius and Schuorr ; returned to War- saw and attained great popularity among his countrymen by painting scenes from Polish history. Works : David's Thanks for his Victory over Goliath ; Daughters of the Cid (Villa Rosenstein, near Stuttgart); Young Boleslav III. begging his Father's Permission to fight against the Moravians ; Defence of Trembowla against the Turks, (iotha Gallery ; Kadlubek, Heinrich von Liegnitz taking Farewell of St. Hedwig ; Finding of Heinrich's Body on Battlefield of Liegnitz ; Finding of Wanda's Body ; Prus- sia's Allegiance ; Ascension ; Magdalen ; portraits of all the Polish kings. Dioskur- en (1873), 464 ; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 396 ; Mailer, 335. LESSING, KARL FRIEDRICH, born in Breslau, Feb. 15, 1808, died in Carlsruhe, June 5, 1880. History and landscape painter, pu- pil at Berlin Academy of Rosel and Diihling, then of Schadow, whom in 1826 he followed to Dusseldorf, where he rapidly established his reputation. His first works, exhibited in Berlin in 1828 and 1830, which created great interest, were followed by an excel- lent series of historical and landscape paiut-