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 | Sancho Panza 1839 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK |  In Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, the adventures of the Don's servant, the lazy, greedy and completely unidealistic Sancho Panza, was the source of many humorous and, to modern tastes, cruel adventures. Here the gourmand Sancho Panza is shown enduring what was to him a torment. A physician is waving an ivory wand and peremptorily ordering his food to... | Unrated | Anonymous |
 | Queen Victoria In Her Coronation Robes 1838 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | 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... | Unrated | Anonymous |
 | Les Femmes Savantes 1845 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | 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... | Unrated | Anonymous |
 | My Uncle Toby And The Widow Wadman 1831 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | 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. | Unrated | Anonymous |
 | Queen Katherine And Patience 1842 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | 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... | Unrated | Anonymous |
 | Le Malade Imaginaire 1843 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | 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. | Unrated | Anonymous |
 | Dulcinea Del Toboso 1839 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | The title of this painting comes from Cervantes' comic novel Don Quixote (1605). The fanciful aristocratic name 'Dulcinea Del Toboso' was given by Don Quixote to a pretty peasant woman. The eccentric Don believed that he was her protector and she was a 'great lady or Princess'. She was unaware of his fantasies. | Unrated | Anonymous |
 | Griselda 1840 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Here Leslie has illustrated a character from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The long-suffering heroine Griselda in 'The Clerk's Tale' was a popular subject with 19th-century artists becuase she represented patience and loyalty, both considered to be desirable character traits in Victorian women, especially wives. The same sitter appears in a... | Unrated | Anonymous |
 | The Toilette ca. 1849 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | This picture was also called The Necklace. The sitter was reputedly a beauty of mixed Irish and Spanish descent, famous for her 'raven black hair and arched eyebrows'. She also sat for Leslie's picture of Griselda | Unrated | Anonymous |
 | The Principal Characters In The Merry Wives Of Windsor ca. 1838 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Unrated | Anonymous |
- Charles Robert Leslie
