September 2005 Fine Art and Antiques Auction
Lot 10. "Scottish River Landscape". Oil on canvas, signed "C Leslie" on the lower left corner. Image size approx. 11-1/2"x 17-1/2", framed overall approx. 15" x 20-3/4". Charles Robert Leslie was born in London in 1794. The son of American parents, he was raised in Philadelphia, where he studied under Thomas Sully. He went to London in 1811 where he studied under West and Allston and shared rooms with Samuel B Morse before traveling abroad with Charles Willson Peale, Allston and Gilbert Stuart Newton. Leslie entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1813. He exhibited 78 works at the Royal Academy, where he was elected in 1826, and 11 works at the British Institute. His subjects were portraits, historical and contemporary genre subjects, the latter taken from a wide range of sources including Shakespeare, Swift, Moliere, Cervantes and Scott.
500.00/1000.00 Sold $402.50