Edward of Leslie

Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard von Leslie , also Eduard von Lesly (* 1797 , † July 18, 1831 ), was a German portrait and history painter from the Düsseldorf School and a drawing teacher .

Life

Leslie was a son of Premier Lieutenant Wilhelm von Leslie (≈1770 – ≈1804) and his wife Albertine Sophie, daughter of the artillery captain Ernst Friedrich Wilcke (1711–1786). The career of an officer, which is customary in the aristocratic family of Scottish origin, was denied to him because he was “small and overgrown”. He became a student of Peter Cornelius at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he drew attention to himself between 1823 and 1824 with several portraits and the cardboard box of John the Baptist , a motif that was later also implemented in oil. At the Höhere Stadtschule in Barmen , founded in 1823 , he started teaching as a drawing teacher. At Easter 1826 he switched to the Royal High School in Kreuznach , where he also worked as an art teacher, started a Sunday school and was highly valued by the director Gerd Eilers . He died at the age of 34 from a disability that made it increasingly difficult for him to breathe. Emil Cauer the Elder was his successor as a drawing teacher .

literature

Rainer Bunz: From Leslie: Scottish nobility in Germany and Austria . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2018, ISBN 978-3-7528-3420-8 , p. 206 f. ( Google Books ).

Individual evidence

↑ Otto Lutsch: The Kreuznacher Gymnasium under Eilers' direction (1819-1833) . Annual report of the Royal High School in Kreuznach, Kreuznach 1903, p. 14 ( digitized version )
^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 133, No. 101 ( digitized version )
↑ Angela Nestler-Zapp: The sculptor family Cauer. Artistic designs and social requirements (= series of publications by the Sobernheim Open Air Museum, Volume 17). Rheinland-Verlag on commission from R. Habelt, Bonn 2000, ISBN 978-3-7927-1824-7 , p. 52

personal data
SURNAME	Leslie, Eduard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Leslie, Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard von (full name); Lesly, Eduard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait and history painter from the Düsseldorf School and drawing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	1797
DATE OF DEATH	July 18, 1831

[1] Otto Lutsch: The Kreuznacher Gymnasium under Eilers' direction (1819-1833) . Annual report of the Royal High School in Kreuznach, Kreuznach 1903, p. 14 ( digitized version )

[2] Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 133, No. 101 ( digitized version )

[3] Angela Nestler-Zapp: The sculptor family Cauer. Artistic designs and social requirements (= series of publications by the Sobernheim Open Air Museum, Volume 17). Rheinland-Verlag on commission from R. Habelt, Bonn 2000, ISBN 978-3-7927-1824-7 , p. 52