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 ib.; Mary Stuart in Prison, F. Harper, ib.; Quarrel of the Pets, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Visit to the Château, D. W. Powers, Rochester; Appointment, C. H. Wolff, Philadelphia; In the Library, Borie Collection, ib.; Interior of a Studio, T. Dolan, ib.; Sans Invitation, W. B. Bement, ib.; After the Audience, J. W. Bates, ib.; Five Minutes too Late, Fairman Rogers, ib.; Marie Antoinette at Versailles, Charles Crocker, San Francisco; Reception of the Ambassador, T. Wigglesworth, Boston; Introduction, W. Mason, Taunton; Hardwick Castle, R. C. Taft, Providence; Fencing Lesson, D. T. Buzby, Baltimore; Ancient Régime, G. Hoadly, Cincinnati; Return from the Hunt, H. B. Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland.—Müller, 162; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xvii. 281.

LEON LEAL, SIMON DE, born in Madrid in 1610, died there in 1687. Spanish school; pupil of Pedro de las Cuevas, but improved his style by copying Van Dyck. Painted altar-pieces and other religious compositions.—Stirling, ii. 720.

LEONARDO, JOSÉ, born at Calatayud, Aragon, in 1616, died at Saragossa in 1656. Spanish school; pupil of Pedro de las Cuevas, but imitated the manner of Velasquez; became one of the king's painters, and gave promise of a brilliant future, when he lost his reason from the effects of poison, administered, it is said, by a rival. Works: Surrender of Breda, Episode of the Thirty Years' War, Madrid Museum.—Stirling, ii. 721; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Cean Bermudez; Madrazo, 426.

LEONARDO DA VINCI. See Vinci.

LEONE. See Leoni.

LEONHARDI, AUGUST EDUARD, born at Freiburg, Saxony, Jan. 19, 1826. Landscape painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under Ludwig Richter; spent some years in Düsseldorf, and settled at Loschwitz, near Dresden. Works: Trout-Fishing; Spring; Forest Border; Solitude; View in Saxon Switzerland; German Wood Landscape (1863), Dresden Museum; Swampy Country in Autumn; Moonrise in the Woods.—Illustr. Zeitg. (1884), i. 479; Müller, 333.

LEONI (Leone), OTTAVIO, Cavaliere, born in Rome about 1575, died after June, 1628. Roman school; son of Lodovico Leoni, a painter of Padua, whence Ottavio was sometimes called Il Padovanino. He was one of the ablest portrait painters of his time, popes, cardinals, and the nobility being among his sitters. He also engraved many heads of painters and others. Among his figure-*pieces are: Annunciation, S. Eustachio, Rome; Madonna with St. Hyacinth, S. M. Sopra Minerva, Rome. He was prince of the Academy of St. Luke, and was made a knight of the Order of Christ by Gregory XV.—Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne.

LEONIDAS, painter, of Anthedon, pupil of Euphranor, 4th century Brunn (ii. 164) thinks him identical with the architect who wrote on proportion mentioned by Vitruvius (vii. Præf. 14).—Steph. Byz., v.; Eust. Ad. Hom. Il., ii. 271, 38.

LEONIDAS AT THERMOPYLÆ, Jacques Louis David, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 12 ft. 10 in. × 17 ft. 6 in.; signed, dated 1814. Leonidas, holding his arms, is seated upon a rock near the altar of Hercules; beside him, at right, Agis, brother of his wife, is putting on his helmet, while two young Spartans take their arms, which are suspended from a tree; at left, a soldier and the blind Eurytus; a troop of Spartans advance to the sound of trumpets; a soldier upon a rock engraves an inscription with his sword; a sentinel on the steps of a temple signals the approach of the Persians. The last picture painted by David