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Queen Victoria In Her Coronation Robes by Charles Robert Leslie 1838 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Leslie, Charles Robert | 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... | |
Sancho Panza by Charles Robert Leslie 1839 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Leslie, Charles Robert | 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... | |
The Principal Characters In The Merry Wives Of Windsor by Charles Robert Leslie ca. 1838 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Leslie, Charles Robert | ||
The Toilette by Charles Robert Leslie ca. 1849 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Leslie, Charles Robert | 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 | |
Woman in a Turkish Costume (A Turkish Woman by a Stream) by John Singer Sargent 1907 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Sargent, John Singer |
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