Autobiographical Recollections
-
Select format
-
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 18 December 2014
- 22 May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781107450127
- 9781108074490
- Dimensions:
- Weight & Pages:
- Dimensions:
- (216 x 140 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.43kg, 334 Pages
- Subjects:
- Art: General Interest, Art, Architecture, Western Art
You may already have access via personal or institutional login- Subjects:
- Art: General Interest, Art, Architecture, Western Art
Volume 2
Show more authors 
You may already have access via personal or institutional login
Book 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.
Contents
Contents
Metrics
Full text views
Full text views helpTotal number of HTML views: 0
Total number of PDF views: 0 *
Loading metrics...
* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.
Usage data cannot currently be displayed.
Accessibility standard: Unknown
Why this information is here
This section outlines the accessibility features of this content - including support for screen readers, full keyboard navigation and high-contrast display options. This may not be relevant for you.
Accessibility Information
Accessibility compliance for the PDF of this book is currently unknown and may be updated in the future.