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 | 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 | |
 | 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 |
 | The Principal Characters In The Merry Wives Of Windsor by Charles Robert Leslie ca. 1838 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Leslie, Charles Robert | |
 | 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... |
 | 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... |
 | Queen Katherine And Patience by Charles Robert Leslie 1842 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Leslie, Charles Robert | 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... |
 | Princess Mary by Charles James Turrell 1912 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Turrell, Charles James | 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... |
 | My Uncle Toby And The Widow Wadman by Charles Robert Leslie 1831 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Leslie, Charles Robert | 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. |
 | Les Femmes Savantes by Charles Robert Leslie 1845 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Leslie, Charles Robert | 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... |
 | Le Malade Imaginaire by Charles Robert Leslie 1843 Victoria and Albert Museum London, UK | Leslie, Charles Robert | 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. |
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