Charles Robert Leslie

Charles Robert Leslie (* October 19, 1794 in London, † May 5, 1859 ) was an Anglo- American genre painter.

Life

He was born to American parents in London. When he was five years old, his family moved back to the USA and settled in Philadelphia. Leslie initially began an apprenticeship with a bookseller, but was his interests especially of painting. A portrait that he made at a young age by the by -trotting famous English actor George Frederick Cooke, brought the recognition of Samuel T. Bradford a, a curator of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and with Bradford's Help Leslie was awarded a scholarship to study art in Europe approved.

In 1811 he went to London, where he entered the Royal Academy of Arts as a student in 1813. In 1817 he visited Paris, Brussels and Antwerp, and was recorded in 1826 in the London Academy, his work appeared regularly in their exhibitions. His Lehreren counts among others, the history painter Benjamin West.

It was known as a painter Charles Robert Leslie literary histories. His paintings, their materials are frequently borrowed from Shakespeare, Walter Scott, W. Irving, star, Goldsmith, Cervantes, characterized by originality, lively, humorous presentation and witty guide the brush. The ease of scenes association of artists audience appeal with the format of serious history and writers who had national symbol value for England. In color, which he had formed after the Venetians, it is true and characteristic. Also, by Lectures in the Royal Academy, and by his "Handbook for young painters " (2nd edition 1870) he has made himself known. He died on 5 May 1859.