Autobiographical Recollections: With a Prefatory Essay on Leslie as an Artist, and Selections from his Correspondence

by Charles Robert Leslie, Tom Taylor (Editor)

Overview

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 1 of this lively and self-deprecating work, full of good-humoured anecdotes, is prefaced by an introductory essay by Taylor on Leslie and his art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108074483
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/22/2014
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.79(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Voyage to America; 2. Desire to be a painter; 3. President West; 4. Wilkie; 5. Lord Holland; 6. Appointment in America; 7. Visit to Cashiobury; 8. Lord Egremont; 9. The Wellington statue; 10. Turner; 11. John Howard Payne; 12. Prince Saunders.