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 LEMBKE 26, 1850. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Cabanel and of the ficole des Beaux Arts ; won the grand prix de Home in 1870. Medals : 3d class, 1873 ; 1st class, 1876. Works : Death of Messalina, Girls Playing (1870) ; Dryad (1872), Nantes Museum ; Child with Thistle (1873) ; Rape of Dejanira (1874), Nice Museum ; Orestes and the Fu- ries (1876), St. Quentin Museum ; The Widow (1877) ; Nymph surprised by a Faun (1878) ; The Family (1879) ; Eruption of Vesuvius, Victoria (1880) ; Woman Fishing (1881) ; Citizen of Reims, Restoration of its Charter to Reims (1882) ; Peter de Reims ELELAVATTE. after Battle of Bovines (1883) ; Destruction of Chateau of Archbishop of Reims in 1595 (1884) ; St. Magdalen (1885). Miiller, 331. LEMBKE, JOHANN PHILIPP, born in Nuremberg in 1631, died in Stockholm in 1713. German school ; military painter, pu- pil of Matthiius Meyer and Georg Strauch ; went to Rome and Venice (1653), and imi- tated Bourguignon and Pieter de Laar, though not slavishly. He was afterwards called to Stockholm as court-painter. His compositions are full of life, well drawn, and broadly treated. A Cavalry Skirmish by him is in the Vienna Museum. Andre- sen, Deutsche Peintre-Graveur, v. 193 ; Kug- ler (Crowe), ii. 532. LEMETTAY, PIERRE CHARLES, born at Fecamp (Seine-Iufcrieure) in 1726, died in Paris in 1760. French school ; laud- scape painter, pupil of Boucher ; won the grand prix de Rome. After his return from Italy he became member of the Academy and painter to the king. His marine pieces resemble those of Joseph Verne t. Works : Roman Shepherds, Bay of Naples. LE MOYNE, FRANCOIS, born in Paris in 1688, died there, June 14, 1737. French school ; genre painter, pupil of Galloche for twelve years ; won the grand prix in 1711, and made member of the Academy in 1718 ; went to Italy in 1723, and after his return made professor of the Academy. Spent seven years in painting the ceiling of the Church of s- Saint Sulpice and the Salon of Hercules at Versailles; was named first painter to the king, with a p en si o n o f 4,000 livres. Became insane after the death of his wife in 1735, and com- mitted suicide. Works : St. Louis on his Knees (St. Louis, Paris) ; Flight into Egypt (Church of the Assumption); Hercules and Cacus (1718), Hercules and Omphale (1724), Education of Cupid, Louvre ; Apotheosis of Hercule*, Toulouse Museum ; Laban and Rachel, Angers Museum ; Tancred recog- nizing Clorinda, Besanyon Museum ; Mar- riage at Cairn, Montpellier Museum ; Con- tinence of Scipio (1727), Nancy Museum ; Louis XV. giving Peace to Europe (1729), X, / . Versailles Museum ; Hunting Party at Luncheon, Old Pinakothek, Munich. Bel- lier, i. 997 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole franchise, ii. ; Jal, 765 ; Houssaye, Gal. du xviii. Siocle, ii. 260 ; Wurzbach, Fr. Maler des xviii. Jahrh., 18. LEMPENZEDER, BALTHASAR, born at Haidhausen, Oct. 29, 1822, died in Mu- nich, Nov. 27, 1860. History painter, pu- pil of Munich Academy under Schlotthauer ; formed himself after the model of Cornelius, who, on a visit to Munich in 1852, embraced the young artist on seeing his works. In 1854-60 he designed many cartoons for "lass of church windows. Works : Christ- O mas Eve (1848) ; Expulsion from Paradise (1850) ; Cain and Abel (1852) ; Madonna