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 Paris; Eustache Le Sueur; Benjamin West; Eugène Delacroix (1850); Verdier, St. Germain-des-Prés, Paris.

LAZERGES, HIPPOLYTE (JEAN RAYMOND), born at Narbonne (Aude), July 5, 1817. Genre painter, pupil of David d'Angers and Bouchot. Paints religious pictures and oriental scenes with care, but without much grasp of subject. Has executed works in Notre Dame de Bon Secours, near Rouen, and in the Nantes Theatre. Medals: 3d class, 1843; 2d class, 1848, 1857; Legion of Honour, 1867. Works: Descent from Cross (1843), Chapel of Château d'Eu; Christ in the Garden (1844), Hospital at Beaune; The Virgin interceding for Sinners (1848), Limoges Museum; Springtime personified by Young Girl (1849), Roanne Museum; Genius extinguished by Pleasure (1850), Carcassonne Museum; Susanna Bathing; Descent from Cross (1855), Luxembourg Museum; Albani in his Studio (1857), Narbonne Museum; Napoleon III. aiding the Inundated at Lyons (1857), Lyons Museum; Peter's Denial (1859), Montpellier Museum; Kabyles Harvesting (1861), Tarbes Museum; Dance of the Aissaouas (1861), Perpignan Museum; Christ bearing the Cross (1870), Orléans Museum; Eve (1872); Christ of the 19th Century (1873); Stabat Mater (1874); Christ led to Prison, Resurrection, Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette at Versailles (1876); Falma the Singer, Moors in Court of the Marabout (1877); A Waif (1883); Kabyle Women (1884); Descent from the Cross (1885).—Bellier, i. 935; Bitard, 789; Vapereau.

LAZERGES, JEAN BAPTISTE PAUL, born in Paris, Jan. 10, 1845. Genre and portrait painter, son and pupil of preceding. Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works: Portrait of Sara Bernhardt (1870); The Bath (1875); Banks of the Brook (1877); Repose in Algiers (1881); Arab Marching (1882); Storyteller in Algiers (1883); End of Day, ib. (1884); Caravan, ib. (1885).—Bellier, i. 935.

LAZZARINI, GREGORIO, born at Villanuova in 1657, died in Venice in 1735 (?). Venetian school; history painter, pupil of Francesco Rosa, of Genoa, whose sombre style he not only abandoned, but altogether banished from the Venetian school, of which, for accuracy of design and taste in composition, he must be pronounced the leader during that period. Works: Hercules and Omphale, Astronomy, Cassel Gallery; Venus in a Shell drawn by Dolphins, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Moses striking the Rock, The Fall of Manna, Abraham's Sacrifice, Charity, Academy, Venice; Bacchanale, Portrait of himself, Museo Civico, ib.; Male portraits (2), Bergamo Gallery; Portrait of the Patriarch Lorenzo Giustiniani.—Lanzi (Roscoe), ii. 297; Wurzbach, xiv. 261.

LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS, born in Worcester, March 12, 1831. Real name Benjamin Williams; assumed surname Leader as a distinction. Landscape painter; pupil of Royal Academy schools. Elected an A.R.A. in 1883. Works: Welsh Churchyard (1863); Through the Glen (1867); Wild Wales (1872); Thames at Streatly (1874); English Hayfield (1876); Lucerne, Lauterbrunnen (1877); Autumn in Switzerland, Summer in Worcestershire (1878); English Hayfield (1879); In the Evening there shall be Light (1882); Parting Day, Green Pastures and Still Waters, Autumn Evening (1883); The Rivulet, The Ploughman (1884).—Art Journal (1871), 45.

LEANDRO, ST., Murillo, Seville Cathedral; canvas, H. 6 ft. 2 in. × 5 ft. 6 in.