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 LEMUD (1853). Allgom. d. Biogr., xviii. 241 ; Funs- ter, Cornelius, ii. 331. LEMUD, FRAN(,'OIS JOSEPH AIME DE, born at Thionvillc, Lorraine ; contem- porary. History painter, pupil of Ecole des Beaux Arts at Met/. Medals : 3d class, 1844, 1803 ; L. of Honour, 1865. Works : Infancy of Callot (18:50) ; Helene Adelsfreit (1843)'; The Swallows (1844) ; Moses (18(54); Fall of Adam (1805), Nancy Museum ; Holy Family (1809) ; The Prisoner, Metz Muse- um. LE NAIX (the Brothers), ANTOINE, LOUIS (called tlie Roman), and MA THIEU, l>orn at Laon (Aisne) about 1508, 1503, 1007. French school; they painted domestic and rural scenes. When Antoino became master in St. Germain des Pri's, ]iis brothers were his apprentices. In 1G33 Mathieu came to Paris, where the three brothers lived together for many years. In 1(!48 they were all received into the Acad- emy. Antoino and Louis died two months Liter, May 20th and May 2:id. Mathieu, who especially excelled in portraiture, died April 20, 1077. Works : Procession in Interior of Church (attributed) ; Blacksmith in his Smithy, Adoration of Shepherds, Interior of Farm-House, Village Scene, Peasant's Re- past (1042), Louvre ; Birth of the Virgin, St. Etienne du Mont, Paris ; Visitation, St. Laurent ; Presentation in Temple, Convent of the Temple ; Eating Oysters, Body-Guard, M. George, Paris ; Harvesters, M. de St. Al- bin ; Interior of Farm-House, M. de Monta- livet ; Visitation, St. Denis, Libourne ; Ru- ral Interior, Rouen Museum ; Men playing Cards, Valenciennes Museum ; St. Michael ottering his Weapons to the Virgin, Nevers Museum ; Nativity, Angers Museum ; Por- trait of Sieur de Marqucglise, Chartres Mu- seum ; Children quarrelling, Douai Museum ; Interior Scene, Nancy Museum ; The Vir- gin, St. Ann and Infant Christ with Angels, Rennes Museum ; Rustic Scene, Interior of Peasant's Cottage, Vegetable Seller, Gotha Museum ; Five Peasant Children Singing and Playing, Leipsic Museum ; An Artist J painting Lady's Portrait, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Entertainment of People of Lower Classes, Count Peter Sclmvaloff, St. Peters- burg ; Adoration of the Shepherds, Uffizi, Florence ; Mendicants, New York Museum ; Portrait of Marie de Medicis, Adoration of S h ep h erds, Florence Gal- lery ; The Fife- Pi ay er, Staf- /7MV ford House ; nl J) Le Nain's Stu- dio, Luton House. Ch. Blanc, ficole fran- yaise, i. ; Champfleury, Nouvelles recherches sur la vie et 1'oeuvre des fri-res Le Nain (Laon, 1862) ; Gaz. des Beaux Arts (1860), viii. 173, 200, 321 ; (1801), xi. 542 ; (1865), xviii. Ill ; xix. 43 ; Jal, 767. LENBACH, FRANZ, born at Schroben- hausen, Bavaria, Dec. 13, 1836. Portrait painter of rare excellence, pupil of Munich Academy and of Griifle, then of Piloty, whom in 1858 ho accom- panied to Rome ; painted at first genre scenes, and on his return to Munich exhibited his Forum Romanum, which at- tracted attention. In 1860 he became professor at the Weimar Art-School, but resigned in 1862 and went to Italy and Spain, where he studied and copied, for Baron Schack's Gallery in Munich, after the old masters. After his return to Munich he devoted himself exclusively to portrait painting, imitating Rembrandt, and had many orders, especially from Vienna, where he worked in 1872-74 ; visited Morocco, and with Mnkart and Leopold Miiller spent the winter of 1875-76 in Egpyt. Member of Berlin Academy, 1883. Medals: Paris, 3d class, 1867 ; Munich, 1870 ; Vienna, 1882 ; Spanish Order of Charles, 1860. Works : Peasant Family in approaching