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 *tany. Medals: 1864; 3d class, 1873; 2d class, 1875; L. of Honour, 1871. Works: New-Born Baby (1864), Luxembourg Museum; Death-Bed (1868); Watching a Corpse, Sleepy, The Bill (1872); Private Ambulance (1875); Czar Alexander II. giving an Audience (1880); Elder Sister (1882); River Isole (1883); Summer Evening (1885); Orphans, Miss C. L. Wolfe, New York.—Bellier, i. 1022; Müller, 334.

LEROUX, HECTOR, born at Verdun (Meuse), Dec. 27, 1829. Genre painter, pupil of Picot and of École des Beaux Arts; won the 2d grand prix in 1857. Paints antique scenes with skill and archæological knowledge. Medals: 3d class, 1863, 1864; 2d class, 1874; 3d class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1877. Works: A New Vestal (1863), Verdun Museum; Funeral in the Columbarium of the House of the Cæsars (1864), Luxembourg Museum; Slave of Horace (1865), J. P. Morgan, New York; Ancient Serenade (1866), St. Germain Museum; Improvisator with Sallust (1866); Messalina, The Sorceress (1868); Miracle in House of the Bona Dea (1869); The Vestal Tuccia (1874), Corcoran Gallery, Washington; Obsequies of Themistocles (1876); Trial of a Vestal (1876), C. P. Huntington, New York; Danaïdes, William Astor, ib.; The Vestal Claudia Quinta (1877); Little Orphans, Descent of Minerva Polias on the Acropolis (1878); School of Vestals (1880), J. J. Astor, New York; Vestals Asleep (1880); Herculaneum on Aug. 23, 79 (1881), John G. Johnson, Philadelphia; The Fishermen (1882); Sacrarium, The Tiber (1883); Seat in the Amphitheatre, College of Vestals flying from Rome (1884); Mysterious Stone of Pompeii, Seïla, Daughter of Jephtha (1885); Trial of Aurelia and Pomponia, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Prayer to Æsculapius, M. Brimmer, Boston; Supplicants to Hygieia, W. Richmond, Providence.—Montrosier, i.; Müller, 334.

LE SÉNÉCHAL DE KERDRÉORET, GASTON ÉDOUARD, born at Hennebout (Morbihan), Oct. 9, 1860. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of Jules Noël. Medal, 3d class, 1883. Works: Cliffs of Tréport at Low Tide (1878); Sea Baths of Port-Louis, Low Tide at Veules-en-Caux (1879); Fishery, ib. (1880); Low Tide at Tréport (1881); November, ib. (1882); Departure of Fishermen in Rough Weather (1883); Preparations for Herring Fishing, Street at Mers-les-Bains (1884).

LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT, born in Clerkenwell, London, Oct. 11, 1794, died in London, May 5, 1859. His father, a watchmaker of Philadelphia, returned to America in 1800, and on his death (1804) Charles was apprenticed to a bookseller; but in a few years he was enabled to go to London, where he became a student at the Royal Academy (1813). Although his first pictures were meritorious, it was not until his return from the Continent in 1817 that he displayed his special talent, in the picture of Slender and Anne Page. Two years later he exhibited his Sir Roger de Coverley (Marquis of Lansdowne), which left him without a rival in this class of subjects. He became an A.R.A. in 1821, and R.A. in 1826. In 1833 he accepted the professorship of drawing at West Point, but held the position only a few months. On his return to England the same year he painted several pictures from the great poets, and two historical pieces for the Queen, her Coronation (1838), and the Baptism of the Princess Royal. From 1847 to 1852 he was professor of painting at the Royal Academy. His somewhat formal and theatrical compositions are enlivened by a vein of