Storm (1857); Forum Romanum (1858); Portrait of Physician (1859); Portrait of L. von Hagn (1865); Emperor of Germany (1873); Emperor of Austria (1873); Bismarck, Moltke, National Gallery, Berlin; Bismarck (1879), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Gladstone, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Franz Lachner, Helmholtz, Döllinger, Liphart, Paul Heyse and Wife, Baron von Schack, Bismarck, King Louis II. of Bavaria, Countess Marie von Schleinitz (1880), Döllinger (1872), Bismarck (1884), Pope Leo XIII. (1885), New Pinakothek, Munich; A Shepherd Boy, Artist's portrait, A Franciscan Monk, Male portraits (2), Female portrait, Head Study, View of the Alhambra, do. of Vega of Granada, The Tocador de la Reina in the Alhambra, Schack Gallery, ib.; Portrait of the Poet Lenthard, Zürich Gallery.—Allgem. K. Ch., x. 354; Kunst-Chronik, xv. 409; xx. 444, 524; Müller, 331; Nord und Süd, i. 113; Pecht, D. K., ii. 110; Reber, iii. 256; Schack, Meine Gemäldesammlung (1884), 161; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iv. 16; vi. 303; ix. (Mittheilungen), ii. 45; xvii. 346; Graph. K., iii. 29.
LENEPVEU, JULES EUGÈNE, born
at Angers, Dec. 12, 1819. Genre and
history painter, pupil of Picot and of the
École des Beaux Arts. Made a brilliant
beginning at the Salon in 1843; won the
grand prix de Rome in 1847, and went to
Italy for six years. Has since been a very
successful artist. Medals: 3d class, 1847;
2d class, 1855, 1861; L. of Honour, 1862;
Officer, 1876; Member of Institute, 1869;
director of French Academy in Rome, 1872
to 1878. Works: Joseph's Coat given to
Jacob (1841), Samuel anointing David
(1842), Cincinnatus receiving Delegates of
the Senate (1844), Christ in the Prætorium
(1845), Sickness of Alexander (1846), Martyrdom
of St. Saturninus (1847), Antigone
and Polynices (1850), Portrait of the Painter
Jean Michel Mercier (1847), Angers Museum;
Idyl (1843); Death of Vitellius (1847);
Martyrs in the Catacombs (1855), Luxembourg
Museum; Pius IX. in the Sistine
Chapel (1855), Laval Museum; Festival in
Venice (1855); Venetian Wedding (1857),
M. Émile Pereire; Moses saving the Daughters
of Midian (1859); Virgin on Calvary,
(1861), Nantes Museum; Hours of the Day
and Night, Paris Opera House; also decorations
in St. Anne's Chapel in St. Sulpice,
Paris, as well as in other public buildings.—Bellier,
i. 1002; Müller, 332.
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LENGERICH, HEINRICH, born in
Stettin in 1790, died in Berlin in 1865.
History painter, pupil in Berlin of Wach;
then studied in Italy in 1817-21 after Raphael
and Correggio, and became professor
at the Berlin Academy. Works: Descent
from the Cross, St. Jacob's, Stettin; Twelve
Christian Martyrs,
Chapel
Royal Palace,
Berlin; Entombment.—Allgem. d. Biogr.,
xviii. 250; Raczynski, iii. 60; Rosenberg,
Berliner Malerschule, 55.
LENOIR, PAUL MARIE, born in Paris
about 1850, died in Cairo in 1881. Genre
painter, pupil of Gérôme and Jalabert.
Medal, 1st class, 1876. Works: Cambyses
at Pelusium (1867); Japanese Brook (1872);
Trained Elephant; Japanese Festival; Cairo
(1879); Races at Osaka in Japan (1880).—L'Art
(1881), xxxv. 72.
LENS, ANDRIES CORNELIS, born in
Antwerp, March 31, 1739, died in Brussels,
March 30, 1822. Flemish school; history
and portrait painter, pupil of Karel Eyckens
and Balthasar Beschey; studied in Rome
(1764-69), after Raphael and the antique.
Professor in Antwerp Academy in 1763-81.
A degenerate scion of a once famous school;
composition feeble, flesh false in tone, execution
uncertain. Works: Annunciation,
Portrait of the Engraver Martenaise (1762),
Art Triumphant over Ignorance (1763), Museum,
Antwerp; Presentation in the Temple,
St. Augustine's, ib.; Samson and Delilah,
Ariadne and Bacchus, Offering to
Bacchus, Brussels Museum; Annunciation,
St. Michael's, Ghent; Departure of St.
Rumbold, Murder of St. Rumbold, Cathe-