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 doors to pastel-painting in 1749. Member of the Academy, 1746; court-painter, 1750. Works: Jean Restout (1738), Dumont le Romain (1742), Louis de France, son of Louis XV. (2, 1745, 1748), Louis XV., Marie Leczinska, Marshal de Saxe (1748), Marquise de Pompadour (1755), Dauphine Marie de Saxe (1763), Siméon Chardin, Sculptor René Firmin, Marquis d'Argenson (?), and himself, Louvre, Paris; Portrait of himself, Aix Museum; do., and a Canon of Rheims Cathedral, Marshal de Saxe, Male Head with Night-cap, Dijon Museum; The Poet Crébillon, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Marie Leczinska, Marshal de Saxe, and thirty-six others, Saint-Quentin Museum; Male and Female Portrait, Valenciennes Museum.—Bellier, i. 918; Desmaze, M. Q. de La Tour (Paris, 1854); Goncourt, L'art du xviii. siècle (1880), i. 219; Houssaye, Gal. du xviii. siècle, iii. 160; Jal, 745.

LAUDER, ROBERT SCOTT, born at Silver Mills, near Edinburgh, in 1803, died in Edinburgh, April 21, 1869. History painter, pupil of Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh, whither he returned in 1820 after three years in London, where he drew at the British Museum and in a private life academy. On the erection of the Scottish Academy, in 1830, he became one of its first members; visited the Continent in 1833, and studied for five years, chiefly at Rome, Bologna, Florence, and Venice; after his return, in 1838, lived mostly in London; afterwards returned to Edinburgh, where he was struck by paralysis in 1861. Works: Bride of Lammermuir, Rose Bradwardine (1839); Trial of Effie Deans (1840); Ruth, Meg Merrilies and the Dying Smuggler (1842); Hannah presenting Samuel to Eli (1845); Christ walking on the Sea (1847); Mother and Child (1848); Christ teaching Humility.—Redgrave, 262.

LAUENSTEIN, HEINRICH, born at Hiddensen, Hanover, in 1836. History painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Bendemann and Deger. Works: St. Vincent de Paul (1865); Christ Crucified (1868); do. (1870); St. Elizabeth commending Orphans to Divine Protection (1874); Portraits of Artists, Kunsthalle, Sigmaringen.—Müller, 321.

LAUFBERGER, FERDINAND, born at Mariaschein, Bohemia, Feb. 16, 1829, died July 16, 1881. Genre and history painter, pupil of Prague and Vienna Academies, at the latter under Ruben; visited the Danubian principalities and Constantinople in 1855, Germany, Belgium, England, and France in 1862, and Italy in 1863, where he studied especially the art of the Renaissance. Counsellor of Vienna Academy in 1866, professor at the Industrial Art School in 1868. Works: Architecture (1849); Tower-Watch (1850); Woodland Scene (1851); Scholar observing Solar Eclipse; Market in Upper Hungary; Travellers resting before Peasant's House; Old Bachelor; Cozy Place; Geneviève in the Woods; Visit to the Louvre (1862); Curtain for Ballet and Comic Opera (1867), Opera House, Vienna; Sgraffito-Frieze, Museum, ib.; Eight Angels and Four Evangelists, The Four Cardinal Virtues, Votivkirche, ib.; Scene in the Prater (1881).—Allgem. d. Biogr., xviii. 40; Graph. K., iv. 53; Kunst-Chronik, xvi. 757; xvii. 290; Mittheilungen d. österr. Mus., xvi. 402; xvii. 19; N. Illustr. Zeitg. (1881), ii. 718; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 9; viii. (Mittheilungen, i. 25); xvii. 261.

LAUGÉE, DÉSIRÉ FRANÇOIS, born at Maromme (Seine-Inférieure), Jan. 25, 1823. Genre painter, pupil of Picot. He first exhibited portraits of good quality in the Salon of 1845, and then turned to genre and history, sacred and profane. Medals: 3d class, 1851; 2d class, 1855, 1859; 1st class, 1861, 1863; L. of Honour, 1865. Works: Van Dyck at Saventhem (1847); Death of Zurbaran (1850); Murder of Rizzio (1850); Siege of St. Quentin (1851); Death of Will