Autobiographical Recollections: With a Prefatory Essay on Leslie as an Artist, and Selections from His Correspondence Contributor(s): Leslie, Charles Robert (Author), Taylor, Tom (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1108074499 ISBN-13: 9781108074490 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $46.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Americas (north Central South West Indies) - Art | History - General |
Dewey: 759.2 |
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.94 lbs) 334 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Royal Academician Charles Leslie (1794-1859) also wrote biographies of fellow painters. His life of John Constable and a two-volume work on Sir Joshua Reynolds are also reissued in this series. On his death, the Reynolds work was completed by the journalist and dramatist Tom Taylor (1817-80), who also edited Leslie's two-volume autobiography, published in 1860. Though born in London, Leslie was an American, a child prodigy in drawing, who returned to Britain in 1811 to study painting with Benjamin West and Washington Allston. He had enormous admiration for the paintings of his contemporaries and of the previous generation, and his reminiscences are intended to preserve 'some recollections of those chiefly whom I could praise'. Volume 2 of this lively and self-deprecating work, full of good-humoured anecdotes, consists of extensive extracts from Leslie's letters and an appendix listing his paintings. |