Charles Robert Leslie
Charles Robert Leslie (born October 19, 1794 in London - † May 5, 1859 ) was an English-American genre painter .
Life
Leslie was born in London to American parents. When he was five years old, his family relocated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia . Leslie began an apprenticeship with a bookseller, but his main interest was painting. A portrait he made of the traveling famous English actor George Frederick Cooke at a young age earned the recognition of Samuel T. Bradford, a curator of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts , and with whose help Leslie was awarded a scholarship to study art in Europe approved.
In 1811 he went to London, where he entered the Royal Academy of Arts as a student in 1813 . In 1817 he visited Paris, Brussels and Antwerp and in 1826 was accepted into the London Academy, in whose exhibitions his works appeared regularly. Among his teachers is the history painter Benjamin West . In New York , Leslie was elected honorary member ( Honorary NA ) in 1827, the first year after the founding of the National Academy of Design .
Charles Robert Leslie was known as a painter of literary histories. The subjects of his paintings are often borrowed from Shakespeare , Walter Scott , W. Irving, Sterne, Goldsmith or Cervantes . The artist combined the lightness of the scenes in an effective way for the public with the format of serious history and writers who had national symbolic value for England. He also made himself known through lectures at the royal academy and through his Handbook for young painters (2nd edition 1870). He died on May 5, 1859.
literature
- Sabine Schulze (Ed.): Gardens: Order - Inspiration - Happiness. Städel Museum , Frankfurt am Main & Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7757-1870-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "L" / Leslie, Charles Robert Honorary 1827 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 1, 2015)
- ↑ Schulze et al., P. 160.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leslie, Charles Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English-American genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1859 |
| Place of death | London |