Charles Robert Leslie

(1794-1859)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859 DNB: Leslie, Charles Robert (1794-1859), literary genre painter and author LBT ID: ChLesli1859 VIAF ID: 51801435 LOC ID: nr89014516	B/BAP: 1794-10-19 DIED: 1859-05-05
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American-born genre-painter who came to England in 1811 and studied with fellow-Americans Benjamin West and Washington Allston; he published Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843).
REFERENCES TO Charles Robert Leslie: Allan Cunningham to John Murray, 26 April 1823 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Alaric Alexander Watts to Frances Hogson, [1826?] in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1826 Found 3: ¶ n1 ¶ 15 ¶ n1 Chapter VII 1826 Found 1: ¶ 5 Chapter IX 1831 Found 1: ¶ 31 Chapter XII Found 1: ¶ 58 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 8: My Own Life Found 1: ¶ 22 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter VIII. Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 9 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XIX. 1827-1830 Found 1: ¶ Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter IV. 1838-41. Found 1: ¶ 9 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXIV. Found 1: ¶ n1 Chap. XXVIII. Found 1: ¶ 12 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1828 Found 1: ¶ 1