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 26, 1850. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Cabanel and of the École des Beaux Arts; won the grand prix de Rome in 1870. Medals: 3d class, 1873; 1st class, 1876. Works: Death of Messalina, Girls Playing (1870); Dryad (1872), Nantes Museum; Child with Thistle (1873); Rape of Dejanira (1874), Nice Museum; Orestes and the Furies (1876), St. Quentin Museum; The Widow (1877); Nymph surprised by a Faun (1878); The Family (1879); Eruption of Vesuvius, Victoria (1880); Woman Fishing (1881); Citizen of Reims, Restoration of its Charter to Reims (1882); Peter de Reims after Battle of Bovines (1883); Destruction of Château of Archbishop of Reims in 1595 (1884); St. Magdalen (1885).—Müller, 331.

LEMBKE, JOHANN PHILIPP, born in Nuremberg in 1631, died in Stockholm in 1713. German school; military painter, pupil of Matthäus Meyer and Georg Strauch; went to Rome and Venice (1653), and imitated Bourguignon and Pieter de Laar, though not slavishly. He was afterwards called to Stockholm as court-painter. His compositions are full of life, well drawn, and broadly treated. A Cavalry Skirmish by him is in the Vienna Museum.—Andresen, Deutsche Peintre-Graveur, v. 193; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 532.

LEMETTAY, PIERRE CHARLES, born at Fécamp (Seine-Inférieure) in 1726, died in Paris in 1760. French school; landscape painter, pupil of Boucher; won the grand prix de Rome. After his return from Italy he became member of the Academy and painter to the king. His marine pieces resemble those of Joseph Vernet. Works: Roman Shepherds, Bay of Naples.

LE MOYNE, FRANÇOIS, born in Paris in 1688, died there, June 14, 1737. French school; genre painter, pupil of Galloche for twelve years; won the grand prix in 1711, and made member of the Academy in 1718; went to Italy in 1723, and after his return made professor of the Academy. Spent seven years in painting the ceiling of the Church of Saint Sulpice and the Salon of Hercules at Versailles; was named first painter to the king, with a pension of 4,000 livres. Became insane after the death of his wife in 1735, and committed suicide. Works: St. Louis on his Knees (St. Louis, Paris); Flight into Egypt (Church of the Assumption); Hercules and Cacus (1718), Hercules and Omphale (1724), Education of Cupid, Louvre; Apotheosis of Hercules, Toulouse Museum; Laban and Rachel, Angers Museum; Tancred recognizing Clorinda, Besançon Museum; Marriage at Cana, Montpellier Museum; Continence of Scipio (1727), Nancy Museum; Louis XV. giving Peace to Europe (1729), Versailles Museum; Hunting Party at Luncheon, Old Pinakothek, Munich.—Bellier, i. 997; Ch. Blanc, École française, ii.; Jal, 765; Houssaye, Gal. du xviii. Siècle, ii. 260; Wurzbach, Fr. Maler des xviii. Jahrh., 18.

LEMPENZEDER, BALTHASAR, born at Haidhausen, Oct. 29, 1822, died in Munich, Nov. 27, 1860. History painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Schlotthauer; formed himself after the model of Cornelius, who, on a visit to Munich in 1852, embraced the young artist on seeing his works. In 1854-60 he designed many cartoons for glass of church windows. Works: Christmas Eve (1848); Expulsion from Paradise (1850); Cain and Abel (1852); Madonna