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The latter in The Yankee called Leslie "a master draughtsman, decidedly one of the two, or three best alive". [1] In addition to his skill as an artist, Leslie was a ready and pleasant writer. His Life of his friend Constable, the landscape painter, appeared in 1843 is regarded as one of the classics of artistic biography. [8]
Robert Leslie was born on December 18, 1885, in New York City’s Lower East Side to Louis Leslie, a Scottish seaman who converted to Judaism and married a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania. He entered the workforce at 14, working for a Russian intellectual and printer where he learned to love typography, printing, and to speak fluent Russian.
Robert Leslie may refer to: Robert Leslie (bishop) (died 1672), Bishop of Clogher; Robert Sterritt Leslie (1875–1958), Saskatchewan politician; Robert Leslie (photographer), photographer; Robbie Leslie, disc jockey; Robert L. Leslie (1885–1987), graphic designer; Robert Burton Leslie (1891–1976), Commander of the Ceylon Defence Force ...
The List of painters in the National Gallery of Art is a list of the named artists in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. whose works there comprise oil paintings, gouaches, tempera paintings, and pastels. The online collection contains roughly 4,000 paintings by 1,000 artists, but only named painters with the previously mentioned ...
Leslie was born into an artistic family, his father was the notable genre painter Charles Robert Leslie RA, and his uncle Robert Leslie was a marine artist. He studied art first at Cary's Art Academy, then from 1854 at the Royal Academy. His first exhibition at the Academy was in 1859, and he showed his work every year thereafter.
Charles Leslie (1839–1886) was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era, and a member of the Williams family of painters. Charles Leslie was born Charles Edward John Leslie on 27 November 1839 in the Pentonville Road area of the Islington borough of London. [1] He was the son of Emily Ann Williams and Charles Leslie, senior.
Leslie Nielsen happily reprised his role as L.A.'s non-finest, Det. Frank Drebin, and the writer/directors initially planned to cast a real 10 as his leading lady — screen siren, Bo Derek.
Larry Stanton (June 21, 1947 – October 18, 1984) was a Manhattan-based portrait artist whose work was championed by David Hockney, Henry Geldzahler, Ellsworth Kelly and others. [1] He was a gay man who lived in Greenwich Village in New York City.