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  | Artist | Notes |
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 | Griselda by Charles Robert Leslie 1840 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Leslie, Charles Robert |  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... |
 | Florizel And Perdita by Charles Robert Leslie 1837 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Leslie, Charles Robert | 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... |
 | Dulcinea Del Toboso by Charles Robert Leslie 1839 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Leslie, Charles Robert | 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. |
 | Autolycus by Charles Robert Leslie 1836 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Leslie, Charles Robert | 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. |
 | A Garden Scene by Charles Robert Leslie 1840 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Leslie, Charles Robert | 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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