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 (1853).—Allgem. d. Biogr., xviii. 241; Förster, Cornelius, ii. 331.

LEMUD, FRANÇOIS JOSEPH AIMÉ DE, born at Thionville, Lorraine; contemporary. History painter, pupil of École des Beaux Arts at Metz. Medals: 3d class, 1844, 1863; L. of Honour, 1865. Works: Infancy of Callot (1839); Helene Adelsfreit (1843); The Swallows (1844); Moses (1864); Fall of Adam (1865), Nancy Museum; Holy Family (1869); The Prisoner, Metz Museum.

LE NAIN (the Brothers), ANTOINE, LOUIS (called the Roman), and MATHIEU, born at Laon (Aisne) about 1598, 1593, 1607. French school; they painted domestic and rural scenes. When Antoine became master in St. Germain des Près, his brothers were his apprentices. In 1633 Mathieu came to Paris, where the three brothers lived together for many years. In 1648 they were all received into the Academy. Antoine and Louis died two months later, May 26th and May 23d. Mathieu, who especially excelled in portraiture, died April 20, 1677. Works: Procession in Interior of Church (attributed); Blacksmith in his Smithy, Adoration of Shepherds, Interior of Farm-House, Village Scene, Peasant's Repast (1642), Louvre; Birth of the Virgin, St. Étienne du Mont, Paris; Visitation, St. Laurent; Presentation in Temple, Convent of the Temple; Eating Oysters, Body-Guard, M. George, Paris; Harvesters, M. de St. Albin; Interior of Farm-House, M. de Montalivet; Visitation, St. Denis, Libourne; Rural Interior, Rouen Museum; Men playing Cards, Valenciennes Museum; St. Michael offering his Weapons to the Virgin, Nevers Museum; Nativity, Angers Museum; Portrait of Sieur de Marquéglise, Chartres Museum; Children quarrelling, Douai Museum; Interior Scene, Nancy Museum; The Virgin, St. Ann and Infant Christ with Angels, Rennes Museum; Rustic Scene, Interior of Peasant's Cottage, Vegetable Seller, Gotha Museum; Five Peasant Children Singing and Playing, Leipsic Museum; An Artist painting Lady's Portrait, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Entertainment of People of Lower Classes, Count Peter Schuvaloff, St. Petersburg; Adoration of the Shepherds, Uffizi, Florence; Mendicants, New York Museum; Portrait of Marie de Medicis, Adoration of Shepherds, Florence Gallery; The Fife-Player, Stafford House; Le Nain's Studio, Luton House.—Ch. Blanc, École française, i.; Champfleury, Nouvelles recherches sur la vie et l'œuvre des frères Le Nain (Laon, 1862); Gaz. des Beaux Arts (1860), viii 173, 266, 321; (1861), xi. 542; (1865), xviii. 111; xix. 43; Jal, 767.

LENBACH, FRANZ, born at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Dec. 13, 1836. Portrait painter of rare excellence, pupil of Munich Academy and of Gräfle, then of Piloty, whom in 1858 he accompanied to Rome; painted at first genre scenes, and on his return to Munich exhibited his Forum Romanum, which attracted attention. In 1860 he became professor at the Weimar Art-School, but resigned in 1862 and went to Italy and Spain, where he studied and copied, for Baron Schack's Gallery in Munich, after the old masters. After his return to Munich he devoted himself exclusively to portrait painting, imitating Rembrandt, and had many orders, especially from Vienna, where he worked in 1872-74; visited Morocco, and with Makart and Leopold Müller spent the winter of 1875-76 in Egpyt. Member of Berlin Academy, 1883. Medals: Paris, 3d class, 1867; Munich, 1879; Vienna, 1882; Spanish Order of Charles, 1869. Works: Peasant Family in approaching