Paris in 1852, Portraits of Louise de Savoie, Duchesse d'Angoulême, of Duke of Orléans, of Jean de La Valette, of Vauban (1834), of Gérard, Rochambeau, Drouet, Roussin, Bugeaud, and several other Marshals and Admirals of France, Versailles Museum; General de Rumigny (1833), Amiens Museum; Jean Martial Bineau, Minister of Finances (1856), Angers Museum; Christ on Mount of Olives, Bordeaux Museum.—Bellier, i. 911; Larousse.
LARSEN, CARL FREDERIK EMANUEL,
born in Copenhagen, Sept. 15, 1823,
died there, Sept. 24, 1859. Marine painter,
pupil of Copenhagen Academy under Eckersberg
and Kloss; visited in 1845 Iceland
and the Faröe Islands, and in 1852 England,
Holland, and France. Works: View
from the Long Line; View near Marseilles,
(1854), Before Noon in the Oere Sound
(1856), Copenhagen Gallery; Nieuwe Diep,
in North Holland.—Weilbach, 402.
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LASCH, KARL JOHANN, born in Leipsic,
July 1, 1822. Genre
painter, pupil of Dresden
Academy and of Bendemann;
went in 1844
to Munich, where, under
the influence of Kaulbach
and Schnorr, he painted
several historical subjects;
went to Italy in
1847, and soon after to
Moscow, where for ten years he painted portraits
with success. In 1857 went to Paris,
studied under Couture, and settled in Düsseldorf
in 1860. Gold medals in Dresden,
1843, Berlin, 1868, 1872; medals in Vienna,
1873; Philadelphia, 1876. Honorary member
of Dresden, Vienna, and St. Petersburg
Academies; professor since 1869. Works:
King Enzio in Prison, Count Eberhard the
Rauschebart, Christ at Emmaus (1844-47),
Children on Hay-Cart (1861), Dresden Museum;
At the Young Widow's (1862); Giving
his Opinion (1863); Return from Kirmess
(1864); Village Physician in Perplexity;
Old Teacher's Birthday (1866), National Gallery,
Berlin; Suabian Wedding Feast (1868);
Forsaken by his Last Friend; Punch and
Judy at Suabian Fair (1870); Toast at
Wedding Feast (1871); Tale of the Wounded,
Capture (1873); Male Portrait (1880),
Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Bavarian Girl going
to Church, J. H. Warren, Hoosic
Falls, N. Y.—Jordan (1885), ii. 134; Müller,
321; Zeitschr. f. b. K, ix. (Mittheilungen,
ii. 56).
LASINSKY, GUSTAV, born in Coblentz,
Oct. 27, 1811, died in Mentz, April 21, 1870.
History painter, brother of Johann Adolf,
pupil of the Düsseldorf Academy in 1829-38;
lived afterwards in Coblentz, Cologne,
Mentz, Düsseldorf, and in Rhenish Prussia
and Westphalia, where he executed numerous
orders, chiefly religious subjects. He
treated biblical as well as romantic-historical
subjects, besides smaller equestrian and
battle-scenes; and executed fresco paintings
in the Mentz Cathedral after compositions
by Philip Veit. His works are less known
than they deserve. Works: Liberation of
Peter; Paul and Jacob; Crusader; Tell's
Death; Gustavus Adolphus taking Leave of
the States at Stockholm (1840); Death of
Prince Ludwig in the Battle of Belgrade,
Mentz Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii.
732; Blanckarts, 35; Merlo, 252.
LASINSKY, JOHANN ADOLF, born at
Simmern, near Coblentz, Oct. 16, 1808, died
in Düsseldorf, Sept. 6, 1871. Landscape
painter, pupil from 1827 of the Düsseldorf
Academy, where, with Lessing and Schirmer,
he was among the first to cultivate
landscape independently and to obtain recognition
for this branch of art. Settled in
Coblentz in 1837; moved afterwards to Cologne,
and from 1850 lived again in Düsseldorf.
Works: Schloss Eltz (1831); The
Oberstein (1834); replica (1836); Old
Watchtower in Moonlight (1835); Waterfall
near Pyrmont (1835); Narrow Pass, with
Gypsies; Panorama of Cologne; Dutch
Landscape (1850); Views from Hereditary
Lands of Hohenzollern.—Allgem. d. Biogr.,
xvii. 732; Blanckarts, 52; Kunst-Chronik,
