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A Garden Scene

1840
oil on canvas
Height: 30.5 cm (estimate) Width: 40.6 cm (estimate)

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

notes
The child is Leslie's youngest son, George Dunlop Leslie (1835-1921), who became a painter and writer. He is shown at play, still wearing baby clothes, with his toy horse and cart in the garden of the family home at 12 Pine Apple Place, Edgware Road, London.
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Autolycus

1836
oil on canvas
21 x 29 inches

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

notes
Autolycus is the admitted rogue of The Winter's Tale who once served Florizel but is now a "masterless man" who makes his liviing as best he can.
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Benjamin West

Oil on panel
79 x 63.5 cm (31 1/8 x 25 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Charles Pepys, 1st Earl Of Cottenham

exhibited 1840
oil on canvas
40 1/4 in. x 31 in. (1022 mm x 787 mm)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

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Charles Robert Leslie

1814
oil on canvas
29 7/8 in. x 24 3/4 in. (759 mm x 629 mm)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

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Dr. John Wakefield Francis

Oil on wood
15 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. (39.4 x 29.2 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Dulcinea Del Toboso

1839
oil on panel
Height: 30.5 cm (estimate) Width: 25.4 cm (estimate)

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

notes
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.
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Elizabeth Fry

1823
oil on panel
9 3/8 in. x 6 7/8 in. (238 mm x 175 mm)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

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Florizel And Perdita

1837
oil on canvas
7 x 10 inches

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

notes
In Act IV, Scene iv of The Winter's Tale Perdita and Florizel are conversing when several people enter, including Camillo who is in disguise, Polixenes, the servant Dorcas, and the Shepherd. Leslie omits several other characters, but now Perdita picks the various flowers and herbs to distribute; she starts with Camillo and says, "For you there's...
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Griselda

1840
oil on panel
Height: 25.4 cm (estimate) Width: 20.3 cm (estimate)

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

notes
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...
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