John Leslie (painter)

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Sir John Leslie and his wife, Lady Constance, at Castle Leslie , photo taken in 1906

Sir John Leslie, 1st Baronet (born December 16, 1822 in Glaslough , County Monaghan , Ireland , † January 23, 1916 in London - Kensington ) was a British painter from the Düsseldorf School and the Pre-Raphaelite movement , a large landowner in Glaslough and a Conservative MP in the House of Commons of the British Parliament for County Monaghan from 1871 to 1880.

Life

Leslie, one of six children of the Protestant Irish colonel (Colonel) and justice of the peace Charles Powell Leslie (1769-1831) and second son from his second marriage to Christiana Fosbery (⚭ May 24, 1819, † 1869), was a scion of the Irish Branch of the Scottish clan Leslie a descendant of the Roman Catholic Bishop John Leslie .

In 1830 he was sent to Dedham Grammar School in Dedham , which the painter John Constable had also attended in the 18th century . In 1834 he followed his older brother Charles (1821–1871) to Harrow School in London. From 1839 he attended the College Christ Church at the University of Oxford . After this training Leslie received an admission to an officer in the 1st Regiment of Life Guards , a Cavalry - Regiment of the British Army . During this military career, in which he rose to the rank of captain , he was billeted at Regent's Park , Hyde Park , Windsor (Berkshire) and Farnborough .

In 1847 he set off on a grand tour through Europe, during which he arrived in Düsseldorf in 1851 . There he took private lessons with the established Düsseldorf portrait painter and academy professor Karl Ferdinand Sohn . From Düsseldorf he traveled to Italy , where his family picture in the Roman Campagna (A Sermon, A Monk Preaching In The Roman Campagna) was painted in 1853 . In the same year he presented his picture Children, They have Nailed Him to the Cross at an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts . Then he traveled again to Düsseldorf and Rome . He took part in other London exhibitions until 1883. He was particularly drawn to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . So he associated with John Everett Millais , Dante Gabriel Rossetti and George Frederic Watts .

In 1854 he met his daughter, Lady Constance Wilhelmina Frances (1836-1925), during a visit to the Waterloo veteran, Colonel George Dawson-Damer (1788-1856) in Hazelwood (Derbyshire). They were married on August 26, 1856 in St George's in Hanover Square, London. Constance, who through her mother Mary Georgiana Emma, ​​née Seymour († 1848), is considered an illegitimate granddaughter of George IV from his secret marriage to Maria Fitzherbert , gave birth to five children: John Leslie, 2nd Baronet Leslie of Glaslough (1857–1944 , the father of writer Shane Leslie and son-in-law of American businessman Leonard Jerome and brother-in-law of Jennie Jerome , mother of Winston Churchill ), Mary Leslie (1858–1921), Constance Christina Leslie (1861–1945), Theodosia Leslie (1865 –1940) and Olive Louisa Blache Leslie (1872–1945).

Castle Leslie , photo taken in 2006

When Leslie's unmarried brother Charles Powell Leslie died suddenly in 1871 after swallowing a fishbone, the latter left him not only the successor to the Parliamentary seat for County Monaghan and an extensive material legacy, but also plans to expand the family seat in Glaslough, which he had developed in 1870 together with the architects Charles Lanyon (1813–1889) and William Henry Lynn (1829–1915). Against the resistance of his wife Constance, he had the Castle Leslie , a Victorian English country house with features of the Scottish Boronial style , built under the planning direction of the architects Lanyon, Lynn and Lanyon . Leslie himself contributed to its completion by decorating the walls of the long gallery with allegorical paintings. In 1910 Leslie and his wife left the house and moved to Manchester Square in London- Marylebone .

On February 21, 1876, Queen Victoria bestowed on him the hereditary title of Baronet , of Glaslough in the County of Monaghan.

literature

  • Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage , Baronetage & Knightage . 107th Edition (2003), Volume 2, p. 2307.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, education and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 435
  2. ↑ Dieter Gleisberg (ed.): Goethe, Boerner and the artists of their time. Drawings and prints from the time of Goethe . CG Boerner, Düsseldorf 1999, p. 287
  3. ↑ A Sermon, A Monk Preaching in the Roman Campagna , illustration in the artnet .com portal
  4. ^ Caroline Ings-Chambers: Louisa Waterford and John Ruskin. 'For you have no Falsely Praised' . Modern Humanities Research Association, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), New York / NY 2015, ISBN 978-1-909662-47-6 , p. 27 ( Google Books )
  5. ↑ Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage , Baronetage & Knightage . 107th Edition (2003), Volume 2, p. 2307
  6. ↑ Stephen Farrell: Leslie, Charles Powell . In: DR Fisher (ed.): The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1820-1832 . Cambridge University Press, 2009
  7. ↑ Kevin V. Mulligan: The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster: Armagh, Cavan, and Monaghan . Yale University Press, New Haven 2013, ISBN 978-0-3001-8601-7 , p. 342
  8. ^ The London Gazette : No. 24295, p. 760 , February 18, 1876.
personal data
SURNAME Leslie, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leslie, Sir John, 1st Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter, landowner and MP in the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Glaslough , County Monaghan , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1916
Place of death Kensington (London)