Olympus, noblemen and beggars, warriors and peasants, gentlewomen as well as tooth-*less hags, monks, fools, and pilgrims. Works: Last Judgment (1532), Leyden Museum; The Engagement Ring, David playing the Harp before Saul, St. Luke and St. Mark, St. Matthew, Adoration of the Magi (?), Triptych with Adoration in centre, Antwerp Museum; Game of Chess, St. Jerome doing Penitence, Berlin Museum; Madonna and Angels, Darmstadt Museum; Temptation of St. Anthony (replica in Vienna Museum), Mary Magdalen, Dresden Museum; Surgical Operation, Gotha Museum; Madonna with Mary Magdalen (1522), Annunciation, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Christ and the Blind Man of Jericho (1531), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; The Tiburtine Sibyl and Emperor Augustus, Academy, Vienna; Antonius and Hilarion, Triumphal Entry of David, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Pietà, St. Sebastian, Bergamo Gallery; Madonna with Angels, Galleria Estense, Modena; Christ Crowned with Thorns, Uffizi, Florence; A Card Party, Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House; The Dentist, Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth; Calvary (triptych), Turin Gallery; Last Judgment, Historical Society, New York; Portrait of himself, Brunswick Museum; Count Edzard I. of East Friesland, Oldenburg Gallery; Emperor Maximilian I., Vienna Museum; do., Naples Museum; Portrait of a Young Knight, Liverpool Institution; do. of himself, and another, Uffizi, Florence. Bartsch mentions 174 engravings by him.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xix. 338; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise, i.; Engerth, Belvedere Galerie, ii. 239; Förster, Gesch., ii. 137; do., Denkmale, xi. iii. 675; Immerzeel, ii. 171; Keane, Early Masters, 231; Kramm, iv. 970; Kugler (Crowe), i. 121; Michiels, v. 95; Riegel, Beiträge, i. 11; ii. 145; Van den Branden, 119.
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LEYPOLD, (KARL) JULIUS VON, born at Dresden, July 24, 1806, died at Kötzschenbroda, near Dresden, Dec. 31, 1874. Landscape painter, honorary member of Dresden Academy. Works: View of German Town on a River (1856), Mercury Bastion in Dresden, do. (1873), Winter Landscape with Ruins of Old Castle (1865), Dresden Museum.
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LEYS, HENDRIK, Baron, born in Antwerp,
Feb. 18, 1815,
died there, Aug. 25,
1869. History and
genre painter, pupil
of his brother-in-law,
F. de Braekeleer, and
of Antwerp Academy
under Wappers; at
first adhered to the
style of the former,
but afterwards imitated the French romanticists
and the old Flemish masters. In 1835-39
he visited Paris and Holland; in 1852,
1859, and 1863, Germany; in 1855, Paris;
in 1862, London. Great gold medal in
Brussels, 1835; Paris, 1855 and 1867; Order
of Leopold, 1840; Officer, 1856; Commander,
1867; L. of Honour, 1862; made
Baron in 1862. Member of the Brussels
Academy in 1845. Works: Little Musician
by Peasant Cottage (1832); Fight between
Grenadier and Cossack, Skirmish between
Citizens of Ghent and Bruges (1833); Strand
of Antwerp (1834); Furie espagnole, The
White Caps under Philip the Bold (1835);
Defence of Gueux Family against Spaniards,
Fortune-Teller, Massacre of Magistrates of
Louvain (1836); Rembrandt's Studio (1837);
Family Festival in Brittany (1838); Interior
in 17th Century, Amsterdam Museum;
Gypsies and Robbers, Flemish Wedding
(1839); Dutch Village Street (1841), New
Pinakothek, Munich; Courtyard of an Inn
(1842), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Flemish
Interior (1845), Wuydts Collection, Antwerp;
Family Festival (1845), Leipsic Museum;
Restoration of Divine Service in Antwerp
Cathedral (1845); Wealth and Poverty
