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See also:LESLIE, See also:CHARLES See also:ROBERT (1794–1859) , See also:English genre-painter, was See also:born in See also:London on the 19th of See also:October 1794. His parents were See also:American, and when he was five years of See also:age he returned with them to their native See also:country. They settled in See also:Philadelphia, where their son was educated and afterwards apprenticed to a bookseller. He was, however, mainly interested in See also:painting and the See also:drama, and when See also:George See also:Frederick See also:Cooke visited the See also:city he executed a portrait of the actor, from re-collection of him on the See also:stage, which was considered a See also:work of such promise that a fund was raised to enable the See also:young artist to study in See also:Europe. He See also:left for London in 1811, bearing introductions which procured for him the friendship of See also:West, See also:Beechey, See also:Allston, See also:Coleridge and See also:Washington See also:Irving, and was admitted as a student of the Royal See also:Academy, where he carried off two See also:silver medals. At first, influenced by West and See also:Fuseli, he essayed " high See also:art," and his earliest important subject depicted See also:Saul and the See also:Witch of See also:Endor; but }*e soon discovered his true
aptitude and became a painter of See also:cabinet-pictures, dealing, to Succeed See also:John See also:Playfair in the See also:chair of See also:mathematics at Edinnot like those of See also:Wilkie, with the contemporary See also:life that sur-
rounded him, but with scenes from the See also:great masters of fiction, from See also:Shakespeare and Cervantes, See also:Addison and See also:Moliere, See also:Swift, See also:Sterne, See also:Fielding and See also:Smollett. Of individual paintings we may specify " See also:Sir See also:Roger de Coverley going to See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church " (1819) " May-See also:day in the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
Time of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth " (1821); " Sancho Panza and the Duchess " (1824); " See also:Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman " (1831); La Malade Imaginaire, See also:act iii. sc. 6 (1843); and the " See also:Duke's See also:Chaplain Enraged leaving the Table," from See also:Don Quixote (1849). Many of his more important subjects exist in varying replicas. He possessed a sympathetic See also:imagination, which enabled him to enter freely into the spirit of the author whom he illustrated, a delicate See also:perception for See also:female beauty, an unfailing See also:eye for See also:character and its outward manifestation in See also:face and figure, and a genial and sunny sense of See also:humour, guided by an instinctive refinement which prevented it from overstepping the See also:bounds of See also:good See also:taste. In 1821 Leslie was elected A.R.A., and five years later full academician. In 1833 he left for See also:America to become teacher of See also:drawing in the military academy at West Point, but the See also:post proved an irksome one, and in some six months he returned to See also:England. He died on the 5th of May 1859.
In addition to his skill as an artist, Leslie was a ready and pleasant writer. His Life of his friend See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
Constable, the landscape painter, appeared in 1843, and his Handbook for Young Painters, a See also:volume, embodying the substance of his lectures as See also:professor of painting to the Royal Academy, in 1855. In 186o Tom See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor edited his Auto-See also:biography and Letters, which contain interesting reminiscences of his distinguished See also:friends and contemporaries.
End of Article: LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT (1794–1859)
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