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Henry C. Carey

1826
Oil on wood
9 x 6 7/8 in. (22.9 x 17.5 cm)

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Philadelphia, PA

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Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron Holland

1829
oil on canvas
29 3/4 in. x 25 in. (756 mm x 635 mm) oval

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

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John Howard Payne

oil on canvas
75.9 x 63.5 cm (29 7/8 x 25 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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John Quincy Adams

1816
Oil
36 x 28 in. (cm. 91.4 x 71.1)

Private collection: Mr.& Mrs. Robert Homans

Unknown, USA

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Le Malade Imaginaire

1843
oil on canvas
Height: 61 cm (estimate) Width: 97.7 cm (estimate)

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

notes
Critics admired this depiction of Moliere's 1673 satirical comedy The Hypochondriac, particularly the figure of the fierce doctor Purgon. He has just listed the frightful diseases that the terrified Monsieur Argan will suffer, because Argan's sensible brother would not permit the horrible treatment prescribed.
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Les Femmes Savantes

1845
oil on canvas, with carved wood and composition frame
Height: 99 cm Width: 76.1 cm

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

notes
Leslie frequently used themes from humorous literature. Here he is illustrating a scene from a play by Moliere, Les Femmes Savantes ('The Learned Ladies'), in which the conceited Trissotin reads a pretentious sonnet of his own composition to his admiring audience of literary ladies, the self-styled 'learned ladies' of the title. When this picture was...
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My Uncle Toby And The Widow Wadman

1831
oil on canvas
Height: 82.5 cm (estimate) Width: 57.1 cm (estimate)

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

notes
This painting depicts an incident from Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy (1765). It shows the Widow Wadman trying to stir the affections of Captain Shandy. He peers into her face as she holds a handkerchief to her eye, pretending she has something in it. It was one of Leslie's most popular compositions.
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Olivia In "Twelfth Night"

1855
Oil on wood
12 x 10 in. (30.5 x 25.4 cm)

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Philadelphia, PA

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Queen Katherine And Patience

1842
oil on canvas
Height: 58.3 cm (estimate) Width: 50.7 cm (estimate)

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

notes
Since the end of the 18th century there had been a massive revival of interest in the works of Shakespeare, and many artists exhibited paintings that illustrated scenes from his plays. Here Leslie depicts Act III, Scene 1 from Henry VIII. The picture shows Henry's first wife, Katherine of Aragon (Shakespeare's 'Queen Katharine'), in a melancholy mood...
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Queen Victoria In Her Coronation Robes

1838
oil on canvas
Height: 45.7 cm (unframed) Width: 61 cm (unframed)

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

notes
Some months after her coronation in June 1837, Queen Victoria posed for this portrait. It shows the Queen dressed in her coronation robes and kneeling at the altar in Westminster Abbey. Even this small sketch reveals Leslie's skill as an artist who was able to combine the intimate and the historic in a single scene. This point was reinforced by the...
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