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Charles Leslie

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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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   Publications  Book References:  34
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Charles Leslie
Magazine Article Date Author Color
The Magazine Antiques The American Career of Charles Robert Leslie November 2007 Gallati, Barbara Dayer Yes
34 Book References for Charles Leslie
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2004 Vose, Marcia (editor) Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Circles of Influence, A Timeline 38 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1991 Pennsylvania Academy Telling Tales 19th Century Narrative Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 100 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1987 Neff, Terry (editor) A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art 300 Yes
1987 Simon, Robin The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914 255 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1984 Harding, Jonathan P Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure 185 No
1983 National Academy of Design Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1982 Soria, Regina Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940) 332 No
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 322 Yes
1970 Bolton, Theodore Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons 111 No
1969 Flexner, James Thomas History of American Painting 1760-1835 The Light of Distant Skies 307 No
1969 Stewart, Robert G A Nineteenth Century Gallery of Distinguished Americans 93 No
1968 Purdy, Virginia/Daniel J Reed Presidential Portraits 75 No
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1927 Isham, Samuel The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz) 608 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1918 Dunlap, William A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834) 418 No
1918 Ehrich Galleries One Hundred Early American Paintings 176 No
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