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 Paris in 1852, Portraits of Louise de Savoie, Duchesse d'Angoulême, of Duke of Orléans, of Jean de La Valette, of Vauban (1834), of Gérard, Rochambeau, Drouet, Roussin, Bugeaud, and several other Marshals and Admirals of France, Versailles Museum; General de Rumigny (1833), Amiens Museum; Jean Martial Bineau, Minister of Finances (1856), Angers Museum; Christ on Mount of Olives, Bordeaux Museum.—Bellier, i. 911; Larousse.

LARSEN, CARL FREDERIK EMANUEL, born in Copenhagen, Sept. 15, 1823, died there, Sept. 24, 1859. Marine painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy under Eckersberg and Kloss; visited in 1845 Iceland and the Faröe Islands, and in 1852 England, Holland, and France. Works: View from the Long Line; View near Marseilles, (1854), Before Noon in the Oere Sound (1856), Copenhagen Gallery; Nieuwe Diep, in North Holland.—Weilbach, 402.

LASCH, KARL JOHANN, born in Leipsic, July 1, 1822. Genre painter, pupil of Dresden Academy and of Bendemann; went in 1844 to Munich, where, under the influence of Kaulbach and Schnorr, he painted several historical subjects; went to Italy in 1847, and soon after to Moscow, where for ten years he painted portraits with success. In 1857 went to Paris, studied under Couture, and settled in Düsseldorf in 1860. Gold medals in Dresden, 1843, Berlin, 1868, 1872; medals in Vienna, 1873; Philadelphia, 1876. Honorary member of Dresden, Vienna, and St. Petersburg Academies; professor since 1869. Works: King Enzio in Prison, Count Eberhard the Rauschebart, Christ at Emmaus (1844-47), Children on Hay-Cart (1861), Dresden Museum; At the Young Widow's (1862); Giving his Opinion (1863); Return from Kirmess (1864); Village Physician in Perplexity; Old Teacher's Birthday (1866), National Gallery, Berlin; Suabian Wedding Feast (1868); Forsaken by his Last Friend; Punch and Judy at Suabian Fair (1870); Toast at Wedding Feast (1871); Tale of the Wounded, Capture (1873); Male Portrait (1880), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Bavarian Girl going to Church, J. H. Warren, Hoosic Falls, N. Y.—Jordan (1885), ii. 134; Müller, 321; Zeitschr. f. b. K, ix. (Mittheilungen, ii. 56).

LASINSKY, GUSTAV, born in Coblentz, Oct. 27, 1811, died in Mentz, April 21, 1870. History painter, brother of Johann Adolf, pupil of the Düsseldorf Academy in 1829-38; lived afterwards in Coblentz, Cologne, Mentz, Düsseldorf, and in Rhenish Prussia and Westphalia, where he executed numerous orders, chiefly religious subjects. He treated biblical as well as romantic-historical subjects, besides smaller equestrian and battle-scenes; and executed fresco paintings in the Mentz Cathedral after compositions by Philip Veit. His works are less known than they deserve. Works: Liberation of Peter; Paul and Jacob; Crusader; Tell's Death; Gustavus Adolphus taking Leave of the States at Stockholm (1840); Death of Prince Ludwig in the Battle of Belgrade, Mentz Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 732; Blanckarts, 35; Merlo, 252.

LASINSKY, JOHANN ADOLF, born at Simmern, near Coblentz, Oct. 16, 1808, died in Düsseldorf, Sept. 6, 1871. Landscape painter, pupil from 1827 of the Düsseldorf Academy, where, with Lessing and Schirmer, he was among the first to cultivate landscape independently and to obtain recognition for this branch of art. Settled in Coblentz in 1837; moved afterwards to Cologne, and from 1850 lived again in Düsseldorf. Works: Schloss Eltz (1831); The Oberstein (1834); replica (1836); Old Watchtower in Moonlight (1835); Waterfall near Pyrmont (1835); Narrow Pass, with Gypsies; Panorama of Cologne; Dutch Landscape (1850); Views from Hereditary Lands of Hohenzollern.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 732; Blanckarts, 52; Kunst-Chronik,