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The Royal Academician Charles Leslie (1794-1859) also wrote biographies of fellow painters. This lively and self-deprecating two-volume work of autobiography and letters was edited in 1860 by the journalist and dramatist Tom Taylor (1817-80) and is prefaced by an introductory essay on Leslie and his art.

This two-volume work of autobiography and letters by the Royal Academician Charles Leslie (1794-1859) was published in 1860.

Published in 1865, a two-volume life of the great portraitist and president of the Royal Academy Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Published in 1865, a two-volume life of the great portraitist and president of the Royal Academy Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Excerpt from Old Sea Wings, Ways, and Words, in the Days of Oak and HempI have to thank Messrs. Harper for allowing this article to be incorporated with the present work. Most of it has however been entirely rewritten and rearranged, with much additional matter. In treating a subject of such vast dimensions as the build and rig of the ships and boats of the past, I have found it quite impossible to do so in a modern, exhaustive, or even in a s...

Excerpt from Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Vol. 2 of 2: With Notices of Some of His Contemporaries Routine of Sir Joshua's life A Blue party at Mrs. Ord's A Friday night at the Club A Dilettanti dinner She Stoops to Conquer The Exhibi tion Ugolino - Boswell admitted to the Club The naval review Visit to the Isle of Wight The Oxford degree Letter to Mr. Gardiner Portrait of Dr. Beattie Sir Joshua elected Mayor of Plympton Presents his...

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Excerpt from Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Vol. 1 of 2: With Notices of Some of His Cotemporaries, With Portraits and Illustrations But Mr. Leslie did not live to complete his labour of love. It soothed him under his last great grief - the loss of a beloved daughter - and it continued to occupy him till the last moment of his life. He wrote in pencil, or dictated parts of it from his death-bed, but with all his efforts, had only comp...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

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Excerpt from Autobiographical Recollections But when 1 took into account his claims to considera tion as a painter, I felt strongly that readers must wish to know more about the man than he had himself told them - more about the circumstances and in¿uences under which his pictures were produced, the present state and locality Of these pictures, their subjects, the way in which those subjects are treated, and the general characteristics of his...