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 at Plymouth (1856); Bay of Biscay (1858); Summer (1860); Gibraltar (1861); Land we Live in (1867); Morning in Meadows (1869); Land's End (1872).—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Sandby, ii. 159.

LEENHARDT, MAX, born at Montpellier; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Michel and Cabanel. Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works: Aurora (1880); Ascent of Jacou—Hérault (1881); Murder in the Village (1882); Martyrs of the Reformation (1884); Entre nous (1885).

LEERMANS, PIETER, flourished about 1670. Dutch school; figure painter, supposed pupil of Frans van Mieris, the elder, according to others, of Gerard Dou. Works: Christ on the Cross, Brussels Museum; Gentleman with Gun and Dog, Cassel Gallery; Huntsman resting, Copenhagen Gallery; Old Hermit kneeling before his Cell, Dresden Museum; Old Lady Miser, Vienna Museum.

LEEUW, GABRIEL VAN DER, born at Dordrecht, Nov. 11, 1643, died there, June 3, 1688. Dutch school; landscape and animal painter, son and pupil of Sebastian van der Leeuw (an animal painter and pupil of Jacob Gerritse Cuyp). Moved early to Amsterdam, visited Rome, and lived fourteen years at Turin, where he called himself Leone and successfully imitated Castiglione and Rosa da Tivoli. Works: Italian Landscapes (2), Rotterdam Museum; Bear-Hunt, Stag-Hunt, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xviii. 124; Immerzeel, ii. 165; Kramm, iv. 961.

LEEUW, PIETER VAN DER, born in Dordrecht about 1644, died 1704. Dutch school; landscape painter, brother of preceding, pupil of his father, and a zealous imitator of Adriaan van de Velde, whom, in his best pictures, he nearly rivals. Entered guild of St. Luke at Dordrecht in 1669. Works: Landscape with Animals and Shepherds, Rotterdam Museum; Landscapes with Cattle (2, 1671), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Landscape with Cows and Sheep, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Pictures in Städel Gallery, Frankfort.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 445; Burger, Musées, ii. 261.

LEFEBVRE, CHARLES, born in Paris, Oct. 16, 1805, died there, May 19, 1883. History and portrait painter, pupil of Gros and Abel de Pujol; travelled in Spain, Switzerland, and Germany. Medals: 2d class, 1833; 1st class, 1845; 3d class, 1855; L. of Honour, 1859. Works: Prisoner of Chillon (1827); Magdalen (1831); Louis XI. refusing to pardon Nemours (1833); Miraculous Virgin (1838); Souvenirs of Normandy (1841); Christ on the Cross (1845); Death of William the Conqueror (1851); Bacchante (1851), Lille Museum; Satan overcome (1852), Nimes Museum; Ecce Homo, Wife of Candaules, Doctor Adelon (1855); Triumph of Amphitrite, Gypsy Girl, Bretons, Gloria, St. Louis landing at Damietta (1859); Festival of Bacchus, Magdalen (1861); Death of William the Conqueror, Jacob and Joseph (1863); St. Sebastian (1866); Nereid (1868), Valenciennes Museum; David (1869); Mehul teaching Patriotic Songs to the Parisians (1870); Lucretia, Lucien (1873); St. Anne teaching the Virgin (1875); Parting of St. Peter and St. Paul (1876); Japanese Daimio (1877); Portraits of Captain Hoche, of Jansenius, Cardinal Dubois, and others after originals by older masters, Versailles Museum; Portraits of Henri Litolff, Jules Favre, etc.—Bellier, i. 965; Müller, 325.

LEFEBVRE, JULES JOSEPH, born at Tournan, March 14, 1834. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Léon Cogniet; won grand prix de Rome in 1861 for his Death of Priam. Medals: 1865, 1868, 1870; 1st class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1870; Officer, 1878. Works: Death of Priam, Christmas Eve (1861); Roman Charity (1864), Melun Museum;