The Royal Academician Charles Leslie (1794-1859) also wrote
biographies of fellow painters. His life of John Constable and a
two-volume work on Sir Joshua Reynolds are also reissued in this
series. On his death, the Reynolds work was completed by the
journalist and dramatist Tom Taylor (1817-80), who also edited
Leslie's two-volume autobiography, published in 1860. Though born
in London, Leslie was an American, a child prodigy in drawing, who
returned to Britain in 1811 to study painting with Benjamin West
and Washington Allston. He had enormous admiration for the
paintings of his contemporaries and of the previous generation, and
his reminiscences are intended to preserve 'some recollections of
those chiefly whom I could praise'. Volume 2 of this lively and
self-deprecating work, full of good-humoured anecdotes, consists of
extensive extracts from Leslie's letters and an appendix listing
his paintings.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture, Volume 2 |
Release date: |
May 2014 |
First published: |
May 2014 |
Authors: |
Charles Robert Leslie
|
Editors: |
Tom Taylor
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
334 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-108-07449-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
The arts: general issues >
General
|
LSN: |
1-108-07449-9 |
Barcode: |
9781108074490 |
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