at Plymouth (1856); Bay of Biscay (1858); Summer (1860); Gibraltar (1861); Land we Live in (1867); Morning in Meadows (1869); Land's End (1872).—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Sandby, ii. 159.
LEENHARDT, MAX, born at Montpellier;
contemporary. Genre and portrait
painter, pupil of Michel and Cabanel.
Medal, 3d class, 1884. Works: Aurora
(1880); Ascent of Jacou—Hérault (1881);
Murder in the Village (1882); Martyrs of
the Reformation (1884); Entre nous (1885).
LEERMANS, PIETER, flourished about
1670. Dutch school; figure painter, supposed
pupil of Frans van Mieris, the elder,
according to others, of Gerard Dou. Works:
Christ on the Cross, Brussels Museum;
Gentleman with Gun and Dog, Cassel Gallery;
Huntsman resting, Copenhagen Gallery;
Old Hermit kneeling before his Cell,
Dresden Museum; Old Lady Miser, Vienna
Museum.
LEEUW, GABRIEL VAN DER, born at
Dordrecht, Nov. 11, 1643, died there, June
3, 1688. Dutch school; landscape and animal
painter, son and pupil of Sebastian van
der Leeuw (an animal painter and pupil of
Jacob Gerritse Cuyp). Moved early to Amsterdam,
visited Rome, and lived fourteen
years at Turin, where he called himself Leone
and successfully imitated Castiglione
and Rosa da Tivoli. Works: Italian Landscapes
(2), Rotterdam Museum; Bear-Hunt,
Stag-Hunt, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xviii. 124; Immerzeel,
ii. 165; Kramm, iv. 961.
LEEUW, PIETER VAN DER, born in
Dordrecht about 1644, died 1704. Dutch
school; landscape painter, brother of preceding,
pupil of his father, and a zealous
imitator of Adriaan van de Velde, whom, in
his best pictures, he nearly rivals. Entered
guild of St. Luke at Dordrecht in 1669.
Works: Landscape with Animals and Shepherds,
Rotterdam Museum; Landscapes
with Cattle (2, 1671), Old Pinakothek, Munich;
Landscape with Cows and Sheep,
Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Pictures in
Städel Gallery, Frankfort.—Kugler (Crowe),
ii. 445; Burger, Musées, ii. 261.
LEFEBVRE, CHARLES, born in Paris,
Oct. 16, 1805, died there, May 19, 1883.
History and portrait painter, pupil of Gros
and Abel de Pujol; travelled in Spain, Switzerland,
and Germany. Medals: 2d class,
1833; 1st class, 1845; 3d class, 1855; L.
of Honour, 1859. Works: Prisoner of
Chillon (1827); Magdalen (1831); Louis
XI. refusing to pardon Nemours (1833);
Miraculous Virgin (1838); Souvenirs of
Normandy (1841); Christ on the Cross
(1845); Death of William the Conqueror
(1851); Bacchante (1851), Lille Museum;
Satan overcome (1852), Nimes Museum;
Ecce Homo, Wife of Candaules, Doctor
Adelon (1855); Triumph of Amphitrite,
Gypsy Girl, Bretons, Gloria, St. Louis landing
at Damietta (1859); Festival of Bacchus,
Magdalen (1861); Death of William
the Conqueror, Jacob and Joseph (1863);
St. Sebastian (1866); Nereid (1868), Valenciennes
Museum; David (1869); Mehul
teaching Patriotic Songs to the Parisians
(1870); Lucretia, Lucien (1873); St. Anne
teaching the Virgin (1875); Parting of St.
Peter and St. Paul (1876); Japanese Daimio
(1877); Portraits of Captain Hoche, of Jansenius,
Cardinal Dubois, and others after
originals by older masters, Versailles Museum;
Portraits of Henri Litolff, Jules Favre,
etc.—Bellier, i. 965; Müller, 325.
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LEFEBVRE, JULES JOSEPH, born at
Tournan, March
14, 1834. Genre
and portrait painter,
pupil of Léon
Cogniet; won
grand prix de
Rome in 1861 for
his Death of
Priam. Medals:
1865, 1868, 1870;
1st class, 1878; L.
of Honour, 1870; Officer, 1878. Works:
Death of Priam, Christmas Eve (1861);
Roman Charity (1864), Melun Museum;
