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go by the invitation of numerous friends. She found there such encouragement and success, with such warm regard from her friends, that she has not as yet found leisure to leave her engrossing pursuits for a visit to her native city. Her varied talents and amiable char- acter are justly appreciated, and she has gathered around her a large and estimable circle. She possess- es a fine talent for music in addition to her other ac- complishments.
Mrs. Rembrandt Peale is highly spoken of as a painter in oil-colors.
Miss Rosalba Peale is an amateur artist, and is said to have been the first lady member of any Academy of Art in America.
The name of Leslie has been placed by a painter of. eminent merit among the most distinguished of this century, and his sister has contributed to its fame. She was born in Philadelphia; her parents, Robert Leslie and Lydia Baker, went to London in 1793, when she was an infant, and returned in 1799. She showed a taste for painting in childhood, but did not take it up as a regular employment till 1822, at which time she was again in London, on a visit to her brother. She copied several of his pictures, and two or three by Sir Joshua Reynolds, besides painting portraits of her friends. She returned in 1825 to Philadelphia, with her sister, Mrs. Henry Carey, and her brother-in-law, but paid another visit to London four years afterward. Several copies she made from pictures were engraved for the Atlantic Souvenir. One of ‘‘Sancho and the Duchess” was pronounced equal to the original in ex- ecution. Her skill was great in imitating coloring, �
