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Charles Leslie

Charles Robert Leslie (1794 - 1859) was active/lived in Pennsylvania / United Kingdom, England.  Charles Leslie is known for Narrative, portrait, history and aristocratic genre painting.

Leslie, Charles Robert

Date born: October 19, 1794

Place Born: (Clerkenwell) London, United Kingdom

Date died: May 5, 1859

Place died: (St John's Wood) London, United Kingdom

Charles Robert Leslie was a genre and portrait painter and author of the first book on John Constable and one on Joshua Reynolds. Leslie's father was Robert Charles Leslie (d. 1804), a Philadelphia clockmaker who had moved to London, and his mother, Lydia Baker (Leslie) (1766/7-1824). The family returned to Philadelphia in 1799 where the younger Leslie was trained in art in New Jersey. He continued study at the University of Pennsylvania, still only age ten.

After his father's death, Leslie was apprenticed in 1808 to the Philadelphia publishing firm of Bradford and Inskeep. Samuel T. Bradford, a senior partner, saw to it that Leslie studied in London, and in Bradford's capacity as director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, that Leslie's watercolors hung at the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3545 characters.]  Artist bio

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