- tany. Medals: 1864; 3d class, 1873; 2d
class, 1875; L. of Honour, 1871. Works: New-Born Baby (1864), Luxembourg Museum; Death-Bed (1868); Watching a Corpse, Sleepy, The Bill (1872); Private Ambulance (1875); Czar Alexander II. giving an Audience (1880); Elder Sister (1882); River Isole (1883); Summer Evening (1885); Orphans, Miss C. L. Wolfe, New York.—Bellier, i. 1022; Müller, 334.
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LEROUX, HECTOR, born at Verdun
(Meuse), Dec. 27,
1829. Genre painter,
pupil of Picot and of
École des Beaux Arts;
won the 2d grand prix
in 1857. Paints antique
scenes with skill
and archæological
knowledge. Medals:
3d class, 1863, 1864;
2d class, 1874; 3d
class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1877. Works:
A New Vestal (1863), Verdun Museum;
Funeral in the Columbarium of the House
of the Cæsars (1864), Luxembourg Museum;
Slave of Horace (1865), J. P. Morgan,
New York; Ancient Serenade (1866), St.
Germain Museum; Improvisator with Sallust
(1866); Messalina, The Sorceress (1868);
Miracle in House of the Bona Dea (1869);
The Vestal Tuccia (1874), Corcoran Gallery,
Washington; Obsequies of Themistocles
(1876); Trial of a Vestal (1876), C. P. Huntington,
New York; Danaïdes, William Astor,
ib.; The Vestal Claudia Quinta (1877);
Little Orphans, Descent of Minerva Polias
on the Acropolis (1878); School of Vestals
(1880), J. J. Astor, New York; Vestals
Asleep (1880); Herculaneum on Aug. 23, A.D.
79 (1881), John G. Johnson, Philadelphia;
The Fishermen (1882); Sacrarium, The
Tiber (1883); Seat in the Amphitheatre,
College of Vestals flying from Rome (1884);
Mysterious Stone of Pompeii, Seïla, Daughter
of Jephtha (1885); Trial of Aurelia and
Pomponia, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Prayer
to Æsculapius, M. Brimmer, Boston; Supplicants
to Hygieia, W. Richmond, Providence.—Montrosier,
i.; Müller, 334.
LE SÉNÉCHAL DE KERDRÉORET,
GASTON ÉDOUARD, born at Hennebout
(Morbihan), Oct. 9, 1860. Landscape and
marine painter, pupil of Jules Noël. Medal,
3d class, 1883. Works: Cliffs of Tréport
at Low Tide (1878); Sea Baths of Port-Louis,
Low Tide at Veules-en-Caux (1879);
Fishery, ib. (1880); Low Tide at Tréport
(1881); November, ib. (1882); Departure
of Fishermen in Rough Weather (1883);
Preparations for Herring Fishing, Street at
Mers-les-Bains (1884).
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LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT, born in
Clerkenwell, London,
Oct. 11, 1794,
died in London,
May 5, 1859. His
father, a watchmaker
of Philadelphia,
returned to
America in 1800,
and on his death
(1804) Charles was
apprenticed to a
bookseller; but in a few years he was enabled
to go to London, where he became a
student at the Royal Academy (1813). Although
his first pictures were meritorious,
it was not until his return from the Continent
in 1817 that he displayed his special
talent, in the picture of Slender and Anne
Page. Two years later he exhibited his Sir
Roger de Coverley (Marquis of Lansdowne),
which left him without a rival in this class
of subjects. He became an A.R.A. in 1821,
and R.A. in 1826. In 1833 he accepted the
professorship of drawing at West Point, but
held the position only a few months. On
his return to England the same year he
painted several pictures from the great poets,
and two historical pieces for the Queen,
her Coronation (1838), and the Baptism of
the Princess Royal. From 1847 to 1852 he
was professor of painting at the Royal Academy.
His somewhat formal and theatrical
compositions are enlivened by a vein of
