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1794 London, England - 1859 London, England. 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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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 capa... Read full biography
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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.
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