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 humour which shows itself especially in his treatment of Shakespearean subjects. He was a good draughtsman and colourist, though he had a tendency to blackness in his shadows, and a want of feeling for those transparent and harmonious middle tones which should unite them with the higher lights. Among his best known works are: Uncle Toby and Widow Wadman (1831), Sancho Panza and the Duchess, National Gallery; Florizel and Perdita (1837), Taming the Shrew (1832), Autolycus (1836), Queen Catherine and Patience (1839), Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1841), Les Femmes Savantes (1845), Who can this be? (1839), Who can this be from? (1839), Le Malade imaginaire (1843), South Kensington Museum; Dinner at Page's House (1831), Lady Lawley (?); Murder of Rutland by Lord Clifford, Sterne and the Chaise Vamper's Wife, Uncle Toby and Widow Wadman, Olivia (Twelfth Night), Musidora, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia.—Autobiographical Recollections, with essay by Tom Taylor (London, 1860); Redgrave, Century; Art Journal (1856), 73, 105; Sandby, ii. 39; Hamerton, Thoughts about Art, 304.

LESLIE, GEORGE DUNLOP, born in London, July 2, 1835. Subject painter, son and pupil of C. R. Leslie; student in schools of Royal Academy in 1854; exhibited two pictures in Royal Academy in 1857; elected A.R.A. in 1868, and R.A. in 1876. Works: Reminiscences of the Ball (1859); Meditation, Matilda, Bethlehem (1860); Fast Day at the Convent (1861); Summer Song (1862); Lost Carcanet, War Summons (1863); Flower and the Leaf (1864); Defence of Lathom House (1865); Clarissa (1866); Willow Willow, Country Cousins, Ten Minutes to Decide, Rose Harvest (1867); Home News, Empty Sleeve (1868); Cupid's Curse, Celia's Arbour (1869); Nausicaä and her Maids (1871); Lavinia, Elopement, Lucy and Puck (1872); Nut-Brown Maid, Five o'Clock (1874); School Revisited, Banks of the Thames in 200 (1875); Roses, Violet, Lavender (1876); Cowslips, Lass of Richmond Hill (1877); Home, Sweet Home (1878); Alice in Wonderland (1879); Hen and Chickens (1881); Molly, Pique, Daughter of Charity (1882); Daughters of Eve, Wayside Rest (1883); Benson Ferry, Thames Roses (1884).—Meynell, 124; Portfolio (1870), 177.

LESSER, ALEXANDER, born in Warsaw in 1812, died there, March 7, 1884. History painter, pupil of Warsaw, Dresden, and Munich Academies, at the latter under Cornelius and Schnorr; returned to Warsaw and attained great popularity among his countrymen by painting scenes from Polish history. Works: David's Thanks for his Victory over Goliath; Daughters of the Cid (Villa Rosenstein, near Stuttgart); Young Boleslav III. begging his Father's Permission to fight against the Moravians; Defence of Trembowla against the Turks, Gotha Gallery; Kadlubek, Heinrich von Liegnitz taking Farewell of St. Hedwig; Finding of Heinrich's Body on Battlefield of Liegnitz; Finding of Wanda's Body; Prussia's Allegiance; Ascension; Magdalen; portraits of all the Polish kings.—Dioskuren (1873), 464; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 396; Müller, 335.

LESSING, KARL FRIEDRICH, born in Breslau, Feb. 15, 1808, died in Carlsruhe, June 5, 1880. History and landscape painter, pupil at Berlin Academy of Rösel and Dähling, then of Schadow, whom in 1826 he followed to Düsseldorf, where he rapidly established his reputation. His first works, exhibited in Berlin in 1828 and 1830, which created great interest, were followed by an excellent series of historical and landscape paint