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 age of sixteen had painted many portraits. In 1774 she was made a member of the Academy of St. Luke, and in 1783 of the French Academy. Long before this she had married a picture-dealer named Le Brun, who made a very free use of the money which she earned. At the outbreak of the Revolution Mme. Le Brun went to Italy, painted at Naples Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante, and was made associate member of the Academies of Bologna and Parma. Before returning to France in 1801 she visited Germany and Russia, and was made associate of the Academies of Berlin, St. Peterburg, Copenhagen, and Geneva. Later she visited England, Holland, and Switzerland, and in 1808 painted Mme. de Staël at Coppet. In 1809 she settled at Marly, and at the age of eighty painted an admirable portrait of her niece, Mme. von Rivière. In 1835 she published her reminiscences. During her life she painted 662 portraits, 200 landscapes, and 15 historical pictures. Works: Peace bringing Abundance (1780), Portrait of herself and Daughter (2), Portrait of Paisiello (1791), Portrait of Hubert Robert (1788), Portrait of Joseph Vernet (1778), Louvre; Hebe, Bordeaux Museum; Venus tying the Wings of Love; Modesty and a Vestal (Le Brun sale, 1842, 1,500 fr.); Marie Antoinette and her Three Children, Versailles Museum; Portrait of Maria Caroline—Wife of Ferdinand IV. King of Naples; do. of their Daughter the Princess Christina, Madrid Museum; Madame de Staël, Musée Rath, Geneva.—Bellier, i. 947; Guhl; Ch. Blanc, École française; Wurzbach, Fr. Mal. des xviii. Jahrh., 11; Lejeune, Guide, i. 307; Larousse; Wessely, 39.

LEBSCHÉE, KARL AUGUST, born at Schmiegel, Posen, July 27, 1800, died in Munich, June 13, 1877. Architecture and landscape painter, pupil of Munich Academy under W. von Kobell, Wagenbauer, Dillis, and Dorner; excelled especially in water-colours. Works: Twenty-seven Memorial Leaves from Munich's Past, City Hall, Munich; Ninety-six Views of Bavarian Castles and Towns, Historical Society of Upper Bavaria.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xviii. 103; Allgem. Zeitg., July 2, 1877, Beilage, 183; Kunst-Chronik, xii. 643; xiv. 754; Nagler, Mon., i. 939; ii. 122.

LECLAIRE, VICTOR, born in Paris, Dec. 21, 1830, died there in Jan., 1885. Landscape and flower painter, pupil of his brother, Léon Louis Leclaire (born June 4, 1829). Medals: 3d class, 1879; 2d class, 1881. Works: Resting in the Woods, Souvenir of the Woods of Meudon (1868); Flowers, Persian Armour and Japanese Articles, Fish and Plums, My Cousin's Studio (1874); Winter Flowers (1879); Autumn Flowers (1879), Luxembourg Museum; Field Flowers, Hunting Day (1880); Last Flowers of Autumn (1881); Flowers (1882); Anxiety, Team of Oxen (1883); Chrysanthemums, Summer Flowers (1884); Courtyard Interior (1885).

LE CLEAR, THOMAS, born in Owego, N. Y., March 11, 1818. Portrait painter; self-taught. About 1832 painted portraits in London, Canada; in 1839 settled permanently in New York, exhibiting at the National Academy and occasionally at the Royal Academy, London. Elected N.A. in 1863. Works: Itinerant; Marble-Players, Art Union; Young America; Landscape (1881). Portraits: McEntee; Booth as Hamlet; President Fillmore, Dr. Vinton, Daniel R. Dickinson (1870); E. W. Stoughton, Bayard Taylor, Parke Godwin (1877); William Page (1878), Corcoran Gallery, Washington; George Bancroft, Century Club, New York; William Cullen Bryant (1880); S. R Gifford (1881).

LE CLERC, SÉBASTIEN, the younger, born in Paris, Sept. 29, 1676, died there, June 29, 1763. French school; history and genre painter, son and pupil of the