biografía de Charles Robert LESLIE (1794-1859)

Lugar de nacimiento: London (of American parents)

Lugar de defunción: London

Direcciones: Came to Phila. as a child; London, 1811-on

Profesión: Literary genre, historical & portrait painter, lecturer & writer on painting

Estudios: apprenticed to a bookseller, Phila.; with West & Allston, London, 1811

Exposiciones: PAFA Ann., 1811-65, 1876, 1905; Royal Acad., 1813-59; NAD, 1828-54

Asociaciones: Royal Acad., 1826; PAFA, 1831

Obra: PAFA; Victoria and Albert Mus.

Comentarios: In 1811, the Penna. Acad. of Fine Arts, recognizing Leslie's talents, provided funds so that he could study in London with West and Alston (the Leslie family thanked the Academy in 1831 by donating Leslie's painting Murder of Rutland by Lord Clifford"). Leslie remained in England, where he gained much success as a painter of narrative scenes from literature and English history. Among his subjects were Tristan Shandy, Le Malade Imaginaire, The Merchant of Venice, and Don Quixote. His most well-known work is probably his "The Two Princes in the Tower." In 1833 Leslie accepted an appointment as professor of drawing at the U.S. Military Academy, but he resigned after several months and returned to England where he spent the rest of his life. Leslie also illustrated many of Walter Scott's Wavery Novels. He was professor of painting at the Royal Academy for a time and the author of several books, including A Handbook for Young Painters (1855); a biography of his friend John Constable, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843); and his own memoirs, Autobiographical Recollections (ed. by Tom Taylor, 1860).

Fuentes: G&W; Pierre Irving, Life and Letters of Washington Irving; Flagg, Life and Letters of Washington Allston; Crayon, VI (1859), 185, obit.; DAB; Bolton, Miniature Painters; Thieme-Becker; Rutledge, PA; Rutledge, MHS; Swan, BA; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; Cowdrey, NAD; Graves; Ophia D. Smith, "Charles and Eliza Leslie"; Flexner, The Light of Distant Skies; Dunlap, History; In This Academy, 18, 19 (repro.); Baigell, Dictionary; Falk, Exh. Record Series.