- vania Academy, Philadelphia; Columbus at
Gate of La Ràbida Monastery (1844); John Knox and Mary Stuart (1845); Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth on a Walk (1845); English Iconoclasts, Torquemada persuading King Ferdinand to dismiss Embassy of the Jews (1846); Henry VIII. and Anna Boleyn in the Park, Puritan surprising his Daughter before a Madonna, Festive Reception of Columbus on his First Return from America (1847); Storming of the Teocalli (1848); Charles I. signing Strafford's Death Warrant (1849); Washington crossing the Delaware (1850, Gold medal in Berlin), Bremen Gallery; replica (1851); Battle of Monmouth (1852-54); Departure of Columbus from Palos (twice), Rose of Alhambra (1855); Last Soirée of Charles II., Light and Shade (1856); Wood Nymph, Cromwell's Visit to Milton (1857), Corcoran Gallery, Washington; Titian's Sail on the Lagoon, Defeat of General Braddock, Return of Frederick II. from Spandau (1857); Anna Boleyn persuading Henry VIII. to dismiss Cardinal Wolsey, Scene from Paradise and Peri, Sergeant Jasper saving the American Flag (1858); Star of Empire (1859), Capitol, Washington; Maid of Saragossa, Venetian Masqueraders (1860); Lafayette in Prison at Olmütz visited by his Relatives, Settlement of Maryland by the English under Leonard Calvert (1861); Elizabeth visited in Prison by Archbishop Cranmer (1862); First Landing of Columbus in America, Emigrants attacked by Indians (1863); Venice Victorious, Departure of Moors from Alhambra, Merry Wives of Windsor, Margaret of Branksome, Mary Stuart hearing First Mass on Return to Scotland, Cromwell examining State Documents, Lady Godiva, Elaine, Bride of Christ, Scene from Bulwer's Richelieu (1864-68); The Poet's Dream, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia; Portraits of Washington, Lincoln, General Grant, General Burnside, Louis Lang, Colonel Lottner, of himself, New York Academy.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xviii. 500; Blanckarts, 18; Kunst-Chronik, iii. 188; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 135; Reber, iii 194, 323; Springer, 158; Tuckerman, 333; do., Artist Life (New York, 1847), 171; Land und Meer (1870), i. 94; Wiegmann, 240.
LEUX. See Luycx.
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LÉVY, ÉMILE, born in Paris, Aug. 29,
1826. Genre and portrait
painter, pupil of
Abel de Pujol, Picot,
and of the École des
Beaux Arts; won the
grand prix de Rome in
1854. Since 1877 he has
chiefly devoted himself
to portrait painting.
Medals: 3d class, 1859,
1864, 1866, 1867; 1st
class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1867. Works:
Noah cursing Canaan (1855), Aurillac Museum;
Supper of the Martyrs (1859), Amiens
Museum; Ruth and Naomi (1859), Rouen
Museum; Haymaking (1861); Vercingetorix
surrendering to Cæsar, Venus putting
on her Belt, Holding Mass in the fields
(1863); Idyl (1864); Diana (1865); Death
of Orpheus (1866), Luxembourg Museum;
Rainbow, Lilacs (1868); Music, Hesitation
(1869); Midas' Decision (1870), Montpellier
Museum; Scene in the Fields (1870); The
Letter, Girl carrying Fruit (1872); A Path,
A Child (1873); Love and Folly (1874);
The Brook, The Boat, Willow Tree, Woman
Bathing (1876); The Meta Sudans (1877);
Caligula (1878); Young Mother nursing her
Child (1881); Infancy (1885); The Fountain
Basin, Laon Museum; Love of Money,
Nantes Museum; Idyl, Pau Museum; The
Stars, The Elements, Salon of Ministry of
State, Louvre; Presentation of the Virgin,
Trinity Church, Paris.—Bellier, i. 1042;
Revue des Deux Mondes (1866), lxiii. 703;
Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), i. 498; Claretie,
Peintres (1874), 324; Müller, 335.
LÉVY, (HENRI) LÉOPOLD, born at
Nancy, Sept. 23, 1840. Genre painter, pupil
of Picot, Cabanel, and Fromentin. His
dramatic and brilliantly colored mythologi-
