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 *ing; Forest of Fontainebleau, Farm Interior (1791); A Mine, Stable Interior (1795).—Immerzeel, ii. 166; Weale, Cat. Acad. de Bruges, 97.

LEGRAS, AUGUSTE, born at Périgueux (Dordogne), June 2, 1817. History and portrait painter, pupil of Bonnefond and of Ary Scheffer. Medal, 3d class, 1857. Works; Refugium Peccatorum, Mater Dolorosa (1857); Return of the Holy Women from Christ's Tomb (1859); The Jewels, Little Charmer (1865); The Toilet—time of Louis XIII. (1868); The Mirror, do. (1869); Reverie, do. (1870); Child's Prayer (1873); Arethusa (1874); Cherbourg Museum; Mary Magdalen at the Foot of the Cross (1877); The Four Ages (1881); Carmen (1882); Ave Maria (1883); Little Violet Seller in Time of Louis XV., An Amateur Rat (1884).—Bellier, i. 977.

LEGROS, ALPHONSE, born at Dijon, May 8, 1837. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Lecoq de Boisbaudran and École des Beaux Arts; exhibited at Salon of 1857 a notable portrait of his father, and in 1859 The Angelus (Seymour Haden, London), which attracted attention; went in 1863 to London, where he still resides; became professor of etching at South Kensington Art School, and in 1876 succeeded E. J. Pointer as Slade professor of fine arts at University College, London. Noted also for etchings and drawings in chalk and sepia; has exhibited sculptures and bronzes at Grosvenor Gallery. Medals: Paris, 1867, 1868. Works: Ex Voto (1861), Dijon Museum; Messe des Morts (1863); Return of the Prodigal (1865); Martyrdom of St. Stephen (1866), Avranches Museum; Cupid and Psyche (1867); Amende honorable (1868), Luxembourg Museum; Demoiselles du mois de Marie (1868), M. Miéville; Pilgrimage, Liverpool Gallery; Chantres espagnols, Benediction of the Sea, Eustace Smith, London; The Coppersmith (1875), C. A. Ionides, London; The Baptism (1877), Sir George Howard; Repose of Day, Repas des Pauvres (1878); Jacob's Dream (1879); L'Incendie (1880); Old Wood-Burner, St. Jerome (1881); Rocky Landscape, Women praying in Church Porch (1884); Portraits of Browning, Huxley, Burne-Jones, Gambetta, etc.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 500; (1876), xiii. 569; Portfolio (1875), 114; Athenæum, 1873; Müller, 326; Art Journal (1881), 294; Univ. Mag. (1880), v. 198.

LEHMANN, (KARL ERNST RUDOLF) HEINRICH, born at Kiel, Schleswig, April 14, 1814, died in Paris, March 31, 1882. History and portrait painter, son and pupil of Leo Lehmann, then pupil of Ingres in Paris. In 1837 he visited Munich, in 1838 Italy; then settled in Paris, became naturalized (1847), and took rank among the most distinguished painters of the capital. Medals: 2d class, 1835; 1st class, 1840, 1848, 1855; L. of Honour, 1846; Officer, 1853; Member Institute, 1864; Member superior council of the Beaux Arts, 1875; professor in École des Beaux Arts. Works: Tobias and the Angel (1835); Jephtha's Daughter (1836); Don Diego, father of the Cid (1836), Lyons Museum; The Fisherman (1837); Death of Robert-le-Fort at Brisserte in 886, Battle of Beaugé in 1421 (1837), Charles VII. (2), Louis VIII., Hugues de Payens—first Grandmaster of the Templars, Gabrielle d'Estrées, Versailles Museum; St. Catherine borne to the Tomb by Angels, Virgin with Infant Jesus (1840); Flagellation of Christ, St. Nicholas, Boulogne; Maruccia, Women near the Water (1842); Faustina, Jeremiah (1842), Angers Museum; The Creditors, Hamlet, Ophelia (1846); At the Foot of the Cross, Sirens (1848); Leonidas (1848), Nantes Museum; Consolation of the Afflicted, Assumption, Grief of the Oceanides (1850), Luxembourg Museum; The Dream (1852); Infant Jesus and Magi, Undine, Venus Anadyomene, Dream of Erigone