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A Garden Scene

by Charles Robert Leslie

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

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

Leslie, Charles Robertnotes
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.
Autolycus

by Charles Robert Leslie

1836
oil on canvas
21 x 29 inches

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

Leslie, Charles Robertnotes
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.
Dulcinea Del Toboso

by Charles Robert Leslie

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

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

Leslie, Charles Robertnotes
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.
Florizel And Perdita

by Charles Robert Leslie

1837
oil on canvas
7 x 10 inches

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

Leslie, Charles Robertnotes
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...
Griselda

by Charles Robert Leslie

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

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

Leslie, Charles Robertnotes
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...
Le Malade Imaginaire

by Charles Robert Leslie

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

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

Leslie, Charles Robertnotes
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.
Les Femmes Savantes

by Charles Robert Leslie

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

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

Leslie, Charles Robertnotes
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...
My Uncle Toby And The Widow Wadman

by Charles Robert Leslie

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

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

Leslie, Charles Robertnotes
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.
Princess Mary

by Charles James Turrell

1912
Watercolour on ivory
Height: 80 mm, Width: 63 mm

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

Turrell, Charles Jamesnotes
The Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary; 25 April 1897 – 28 March 1965) was a member of the British Royal Family; she was the third child and only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. She was the sixth holder of the title of Princess Royal. Mary held the title of princess with the style...
Queen Katherine And Patience

by Charles Robert Leslie

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

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, UK

Leslie, Charles Robertnotes
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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