{"title":"Leslie, George Dunlop","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Dunlop Leslie RA (1835-1921)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a British genre painter, author and illustrator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeslie was born into an artistic family, his father was the notable genre painter \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/leslie-charles-robert\" title=\"Charles Robert Leslie\"\u003eCharles Robert Leslie\u003c\/a\u003e RA, and his uncle Robert Leslie was a marine artist. He studied art first at Cary's Art Academy, then from 1854 at the Royal Academy. His first exhibition at the Academy was in 1859, and he showed his work every year thereafter. He became an Associate (ARA) in 1868 and a full Royal Academician (RA) in 1876.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Dunlop Leslie lived early on in St John's Wood (London), and was part of the St John's Wood Clique, a group of artists who favoured light-hearted genre subjects. From 1884-1901 he was resident at \"Riverside\", St. Leonard's Lane, Wallingford, Oxfordshire. His sister Mary Leslie (1833-1907), also an artist, lived at \"Cromwell Lodge\" next door. Fellow artist, James Hayllar, was also a resident of the village and they painted a portrait of Queen Victoria together for her Golden Jubilee in 1887. From 1906 he lived at \"Compton House\" in Lindfield, Sussex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis early works, such as Matilda (1860), showed the strong influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, but he settled into a more academic, aesthetic style of painting with the aim of showing \"pictures from the sunny side of English domestic life\". He often used children as subjects and his work was praised by John Ruskin for its portrayal of the \"sweet quality of English girlhood\". One of his pictures, This is the Way we Wash our Clothes was used as a poster in an advertising campaign for soap. Despite its apparently trivial subject matter, however, Leslie's work was highly regarded by critics of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1889 during his time at Riverside house in Wallingford, Leslie is credited with painting four angel murals in St Leonards Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeslie was also an author and had several books published. Our River (1888), Letters to Marco (1893) and Riverside letters (1896) were all illustrated by him in black and white, and based on personal observations of life and nature in his local area. He also wrote a history of the early years of the Royal Academy - The Inner Life of the Royal Academy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeslie was married to Lydia. They had a daughter Alice (depicted in his painting Alice in Wonderland) and a son Peter Leslie (1877-1953), who was also an artist. Amongst Leslie's artistic friends and acquaintances were Sir Edwin Landseer, Frederick Walker and Henry Stacy Marks. He died at Lindfield in Sussex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn June 2000, The Daughters of Eve, considered to be one of Leslie's finest paintings, and which had hung unnoticed for 40 years in a south Wales school (Llantarnam Comprehensive), was sold for £170,000 to a private collector. The money raised was used to fund much-needed building work at the school.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"leslie-g-dunlop-1835-1921-pot-pourri-1874","title":"Leslie, G. Dunlop (1835-1921) - Pot-Pourri 1874","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtwork by British artist, George Dunlop Leslie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 2 images, in JPEG format, that are 600dpi and 5160 x 5160 and 5320 x 6170 pixels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe set consists of both a full and a close-up detail picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/leslie-george-dunlop\" title=\"George Dunlop Leslie\"\u003eGeorge Dunlop Leslie\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 2 images","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52932571070794,"sku":null,"price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Leslie_G.Dunlop_1835-1921_-Pot-Pourri1874_main.jpg?v=1759261731"},{"product_id":"leslie-g-dunlop-1835-1921-sun-moon-flowers-1890","title":"Leslie, G. 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It is painted on canvas, very simply...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image, in JPEG format, that is 600dpi and 4319 pixels wide by 4326 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/leslie-george-dunlop\" title=\"George Dunlop Leslie\"\u003eGeorge Dunlop Leslie\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52932586996042,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Leslie_G.Dunlop_1835-1921_-Sun_MoonFlowers1890_main.jpg?v=1759261663"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/collections\/Leslie_G._Dunlop_1835-1921_-_Sun_Moon_Flowers-5713597.jpg?v=1768959344","url":"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/leslie-george-dunlop.oembed","provider":"Public Domain Image Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}