Artist: Charles Robert Leslie (1794 - 1859)
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Charles Robert Leslie was born to American parents in Great Brittain. He grew up tp become a painter and writer, although he is mainly known for the latter. His paintings were of literary themes. His most famous book was the Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, published in 1843.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Charles Robert Leslie, A Scene from the "Vicar of Wakefield", Chapter XI, circa 1843
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Ward, Leslie Matthew (Spy), "Chester" (Mr. Robert Armstrong Yerburgh, M.P.) Statesman No. 622, from Vanity Fair, October 19, 1893, 1893
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Ward, Leslie Matthew (Spy), Sir Robert Bateman Harvey Bart, MP. "Bucks" from Vanity Fair, November 7, 1885, 1885
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Ward, Leslie Matthew (Spy), "Newcastle-upon-Tyne" (Mr. Charles Frederick Hamond, M.P.) Statesman No. 616, from Vanity Fair, July 18, 1893, 1893
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Simon Charles Miger, Portrait of Hubert Robert, 1799
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Sir Robert Strange, Portrait of Charles I. King of Britain, 1770
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Sir Robert Strange, Portrait of Charles I. King of Britain, 1770
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Robert Feke, Mrs. Charles Apthorp (Grizzell Eastwick Apthorp), 1748
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Charles Vernier, Vacances: Joconde et Robert. ( Deux avocats en vacances), 1858
Museum of Fine Arts -
Charles Robert Leslie, British, 1794-1859 Benjamin West Oil on panel 79 x 63.5 cm (31
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Robert Feke - Charles Apthorp 1748 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Robert De Launay, King Charles II Landing On The Beach At Dover., 18th - 19th century
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WH, "Bisley Camp." (Lieut. Col. Charles Robert Crosse, M.V.O.), Men of the Day No. 2280, from Vanity Fair Supplement, 1912
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Charles Willson Peale - Portrait of Robert Hazlehurst 1782 oil on canvas High Museum of Art
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Charles Joseph Travies De Villers, Mayeux et Robert Macaire - Que diable: cher Mayeux, 19th century
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Robert Strange and after Auton van Dyck Title: Charles I, King of Great Britain
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Charles Joseph Travies De Villers, Mayeux et Robert Macaire - Oui, Charmante j"ai le dos voutÈ, 19th century
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Charles Robert Ashbee and Guild of Handicraft Title: Bowl with Lid and Spoon Date:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Making the Splice between the Shore End and the Ocean Cable, ca. 1866 Robert Charles
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Charles Joseph Travies De Villers, Mayeux et Robert Macaire - Entrevue de deux grands hommes, 19th century
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Charles Willson Peale - Governor Morris and Robert Morris 1783 oil on canvas Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
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Awaiting the Reply, ca. 1866 Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826-1900)Oil on canvas; 23 1/4 x
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Frank Duveneck - Leslie Pease Barnum 1876 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Charles Edouard De Beaumont, Croquis Parisiens - Une Èmule de Robert Houdin exÈcutant d"une maniËre nouvelle le tour du chapeau, 19th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Landing the Shore End of the Atlantic Cable, 1866 Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826-1900)Oil on
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Ben Sakoguchi, Leslie is not a Boy, 20th century
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Robert Fried, San Francisco Rock Poster: Family Dog Productions, "Tripping," Charles Lloyd Quartet; West Coast Natural Gas Co.; Avalon Ballroom, 8/3-6/67, 1967
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Landing at Newfoundland, ca. 1866 Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826-1900)Oil on canvas; 22 3/4 x
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Charles Willson Peale - William Smith and His Grandson, Robert Smith Williams 1788 oil on canvas Virginia Museum of Fine Arts American
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Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, The two Melisandes, 1928
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Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, Adolescence, 1932
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Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, Amanda, 1920
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Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, La Basquaise, 1920
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Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, Mac Namara, 1920
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Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, The Dancer, 1925
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Gilbert Stuart, American, 1755-1828 Robert Waterston 1824 Oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30
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Grappling for the Lost Cable, ca. 1866 Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826-1900)Oil on canvas; 22
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Chuck Close , Leslie, 1986
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Gilbert Stuart, American, 1755-1828 Mrs. Robert Waterston (Hephzibah Lord) 1824 Oil on canvas 76.2 x
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Homeward Bound: "The Great Eastern", ca. 1866 Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826-1900)Oil on canvas; 44

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Market Square Gallery: Leslie Pearson: Along the Journey
The selections from Along the Journey illustrate isolated instances, moments in time and places which represent significant points of realization for Pearson. Through these landscapes and seascapes, she recreates meditative environments which su...
Warren M. Robbins Center Gallery, University of Michigan: The Playground Show: Krista Hoefle, Jason Lahr, Leslie Raymond
Established in 1995 and named in honor of the founder of The National Museum of African Art and advisory board member of the School of Art & Design, the Warren M Robbins Gallery, part of the Warren Robbins Graduate Center at the University of Mich...
CAC Art Center (New Orleans): The Culture of Queer: A Tribute to J.B. Harter
In addition, selections from the permanent collection of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, that also collected Harter‚s work, will include seldom seen „queer art‰ works by Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jack Pierson, Arthur Tress, Bruce of ...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Rare 20th Century Propoganda Posters
Together the posters show the wide variety of images, from the satirical to the ideological and incendiary, used as forms of political protest over the last century. The posters illustrate a wide variety of approaches: highly-finished professiona...
Leslie Sacks Fine Art: Picasso Erotica
But, of all of Picasso’s multitudinous erotic adventures in various media, the etchings are by far his most important body of work. They are not merely numerous, but rather each is highly charged with the unbridled life force that infused all of h...
Arkansas Arts Center, Decorative Arts Museum: Call to Artists: 31st Annual Toys Designed by Artists Exhibition
The entry fee is$10 per entry. Submit slides and entry fee to: Toys Designed by Artists,
PO Box 2137,
Little Rock, AR 72203 or contact Leslie Schoultz at lgarrett@arkarts.com for a complete prospectus....
Leslie Sacks Fine Art: Jim Dine: 1973 - 2004
In a large botanical monotype, Dine has combined lyrical brushwork reminiscent of Joan Mitchell (read Monet) with Pollock-like drips and an obsessive attention to the development of surface such that in some places he’s broken through the surface...
Leslie Sacks Fine Art: Jim Dine: Paintings, Sculptures, drawings, Prints, Performance Works, Stage and Book Designs
The prints in the Sacks show will include two large robes, Pale Self and Very Picante, and an equally imposing Venus, Oil of Gladness. The Venus De Milo and the robe are, like the heart, recurring iconographic themes for Dine. The Venus image came...
University of Virginia Art Museum: Opting for Realism: American Painting in the 1970s
"Opting for Realism" focuses on figurative art and shows how each artist chose to define realism and depict the surrounding world. Drawn from the museum's permanent collection of 1970s realist paintings, the exhibition includes works by Jack Beal...
Leslie Sacks Fine Art: Works by Helen Frankenthaler
According to the critic, Clement Greenberg, “Mountains and Sea" (1952), Frankenthaler's first “stained painting,” was the 'first monument of Post-Painterly Abstraction,’ and it is certainly one of the most important works in the 'Colour-Field' sty...
Indianapolis Museum of Art: Visions of Home
The tranquil Country Place lifestyle was the prominent theme for American Impressionist painters. These paintings offer a glimpse into the ...
Indianapolis Museum of Art: Visions of Home
The tranquil Country Place lifestyle was the prominent theme for American Impressionist painters. These paintings offer a glimpse into the ...
Woman Made Gallery: Autobiographies: Juried by Mary K. O'Shaughnessy

Parsons Exhition Center: Drawing in the Present Tense
This show is based on a series of simple observations about the drawing process. The creative process itself often has its origins in drawing. In this view, drawing comes about from a succession of traces, impulses and sensations that form an end...
University of South Australia, Art Museum: Orbit ignition, lift off, flying ... yet a continuing relationship with a parent body.
Featured in the exhibition is the work of some exemplary School of Art educated artists and designers of our time - Kerry Argent, Annette Bezor, Aleks Danko, Mandy Martin, Leslie Matthews, Trevor Nickolls, Ken Orchard, Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmie...
Leslie Sacks Fine Art: Hockney Graphics 1965 - 1995
David Hockney's simplified still lives made during the mid-1960's were a rebellion against his academic training - such as his work, A PICTURE OF A STILL LIFE THAT HAS AN ELABORATE SILVER FRAME, from "A HOLLYWOOD COLLECTION" 1965. However Hockney,...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami: Roberto Juarez: A Sense of Place
Juarez recently remarked, "I have found that when you leave your home you think about what you left behind, and what is different about these ‘forms’ that live inside us." Juarez’s solo gallery exhibitions in New York, which typically have occ...
Columbia Museum of Art: Burn: Artists Play with Fire
Technique and theme merge in these dramatic works as artists explore such issues as cultural identity, environmental fragility and personal loss. Some of the featured artists include L.C. Armstrong, Chris Burden, John Cage, Willie Cole, Kathleen K...
Coalition for Jobs, Arts & Housing: No More Lofts Rally
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Sothebys.com: The Art Of Henry Moore
At the core of this sale is a collection of drawings, prints and small sculptures from the Estate of Dr. Max Stern, who, as the director of the Dominion Gallery in Montreal was for many years one of the major dealers of Henry Moore in Canada. ...
New Museum od Contemporary Art: Picturing the Modern Amazon
The exhibition consists of three sections: historical images, contemporary works, and comics. The historical images date from 1783 to the present. The contemporary section ...
New York Independent Art Fair: Art Fair 2002 Opened Yesterday in New York
ARTISTS SELECTED:
Mattias Alfen; Patrick Antonelle; Galerie Rienzo; Gil Chae Jeoung; Luis de Miranda; Francis Dosne; FABA; Stephen Fredericks; Max Grafe; Stephen Hazard; Makoto Hirokawa; Janet Indick; Denise Kasof; Michael Krasowitz; Christ...
Studio Thomas Kellner: photographers:network - Selection 2005
The exhibition shows work by artists that are at the same time on a similar path like Thomas Kellner. He gives us the opportunity to see images of his colleagues, whom he meets at festivals and other events somewhere in the world. The photograp...
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College: First-year graduate students curate exhibitions: I Need You To Be There, Angles of Incidence, and The Volatile Real
The three exhibitions, I Need You To Be There, Angles of Incidence, and The Volatile Real were conceived in collaboration between curatorial teams of first-year graduate students and visiting curator, Maria Hlavajova, artistic director of the Bega...
Leslie Sacks Fine Art: New Acquisitions: Part Two Contemporary Art
This literal and sometimes even literary approach is really at the heart of contemporary art, much of which is referred to as “post-modern.” An in depth discussion of post-modernism is well beyond the scope of this short writing, but let it suffic...
Woman Made Gallery: Fabrications: Cat Chow, Anne Elizabeth and Jill Ziccardi
Cat Chow is showing three new works from her Mourning Gowns series which is inspired by Victorian mourning/memorial jewelry.  Chow’s work blurs the distinctions between sculpture, fashion and architecture. She manipulates everyday objects into fa...
Center for Creative Photography: The Ansel Adams Centennial: Classic Images and A Portrait of Ansel Adams
The Ansel Adams Centennial is drawn from the Ansel Adams Archive at CCP, the largest repository of his work in the world. The archive includes voluminous correspondence, book layouts and manuscripts, ledgers, periodicals and monographs, camera...
Leslie Sacks Fine Art: Karel Nel: Unfathomable Depths
He has also worked on curatorial projects associated with the early traditional art from southern Africa with Musee del Homme in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael Rockefeller Wing and is currently involved on a long-term project with...
Westmoreland Museum of American Art: First Juried Biennial: Curated by Ingrid Schaffner
Featured artists: Virginia Steele Ankney, Paul Binai, Leslie Calhoun, Marie Mawe Charpentier, Ron Donoughe, John Dorinsky, Betty Elias, John A. Fobes, L’Ox Formidable, Fran V. Galamas, Patty Gallagher, Melinda Myers Grass, Greg Hricenak, Doug Kins...
Rice Unversity Art Gallery: A Site-Specific Large-Scale Installation by British Artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey
Their medium is nature itself - thousands of grass blades provide a highly uniform light-sensitive surface that is used to create a unique form of photography. Nurtured in carefully controlled light conditions, young grass has a remarkable capac...

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Charles Robert Leslie Online
Charles Robert Leslie (1794 - 1859) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
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Biografía - Leslie, Charles Robert
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Unknown Country - Charles Robert Leslie
Charles Robert Leslie RA (1794-1859)
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Phryne - Charles Robert Leslie at Geffrye Museum
Leslie, Charles Robert (1794-1859)

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