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 LEENHAEDT lit Plymouth (1856) ; Buy of Biscay (1858) ; ! Summer (1800) ; Gibraltar (1861) ; Land we Live iu (18G7) ; Morning in Meadows (18(59); Laud's End (1872). Cat. Nat. Gal.; Saudby, ii. 159. LEENHAEDT, MAX, born at Moutpel- lier ; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Michel and Cabanel. Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works : Aurora (1880) ; Ascent of Jacou Hi'rault (1881) ; Murder in the Village (1882) ; Martyrs of the lleformation (1884); Eutro nous (1885). LEERMANS, PIETER, nourished about KiTO. Dutch school ; figure painter, sup- posed pupil of Frans van Mieris, the elder, according to others, of Gerard Don. Works : Christ on the Cross, Brussels Museum ; Gentleman with Gun and Dog, Cassel Gal- lery ; Huntsman resting, Copenhagen Gal- lery ; Old Hermit kneeling before his Cell, Dresden Museum ; Old Lady Miser, Vienna Museum. LEEUW, GABHIEL VAN DER, born at Dordrecht, Nov. 11, 1043, died there, June li, 1G88. Dutch school ; landscape and ani- mal painter, son and pupil of Sebastian van der Leeuw (an animal painter and pupil of Jacob Gen-it se Cuyp). Moved early to Am- sterdam, visited Rome, and lived fourteen years at Turin, where he called himself Le- one and successfully imitated Castiglionc and Rosa da Tivoli. Works : Italian Land- scapes (2), Rotterdam Museum ; Bear-Hunt, Stag-Hunt, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna. Allgem. d. Biogr., xviii. 124 ; Immerzeel, ii. 1G5 ; Kraium, iv. 9(51. LEEUW, PIETER VAN DER, born iu Dordrecht about 1644, died 1704. Dutch school ; landscape painter, brother of pre- ceding, pupil of his father, and a zealous imitator of Adriaan van de Velde, whom, in his best pictures, he nearly rivals. Entered guild of St. Luke at Dordrecht in 1GG9. Works : Landscape with Animals and Shep- herds, Rotterdam Museum ; Landscapes with Cattle (2, 1671), Old Pinakothek, Mu- nich ; Landscape with Cows and Sheep, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna ; Pictures in Stiidel Gallery, Frankfort. Kugler (Crowe), ii. 445 ; Burger, Musees, ii. 261. LEFEBVKE, CHAKLES, born in Paris, Oct. 16, 1805, died there, May 19, 1883. History and portrait painter, pupil of Gros and Abel de Pujol ; travelled in Spain, Swit- zerland, and Germany. Medals : 2d class, 1833 ; 1st class, 1845 ; 3d class, 1855 ; L. of Honour, 1859. Works : Prisoner of Chillon (1827) ; Magdalen (1831) ; Louis XI. refusing to pardon Nemours (1833) ; Miraculous Virgin (1838) ; Souvenirs of Normandy (1841) ; Christ on the Cross (1845) ; Death of William the Conqueror (1851) ; Bacchante (1851), Lille Museum ; Satan overcome (1852), Nimes Museum ; Ecce Homo, Wife of Caudaules, Doctor Adelon (1855) ; Triumph of Amphitrite, Gypsy Girl, Bretons, Gloria, St. Louis land- ing at Damietta (1859) ; Festival of Bac- chus, Magdalen (1861) ; Death of William the Conqueror, Jacob and Joseph (1863) ; St. Sebastian (186(5) ; Nereid (18(58), Valen- ciennes Museum ; David (1869) ; Mehul teaching Patriotic Songs to the Parisians (1870) ; Lucretia, Lucien (1873) ; St. Anne teaching the Virgin (1875) ; Parting of St. Peter and St. Paul (1876) ; Japanese Daimio (1877) ; Portraits of Captain Hoche, of Jan- senius, Cardinal Dubois, and others after originals by older masters, Versailles Mu- seum ; Portraits of Henri Litolff, Jules Fa- vre, etc. Bellier, i. 965 ; Miiller, 325. LEFEBVRE, JULES JOSEPH, born at Tournan, March 14,1834 Genre and portrait paint- er, pupil of L6on Cogniet; won grand prix de Rome in 1861 for his Death of Priam. Medals: 18G5, 1868, 1870; 1st class, 1878 ; L. of Honour, 1870 ; Officer, 1878. Works : Death of Priam, Christmas Eve (1861) ; Roman Charity (1864), Melun Museum ; 60