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George
Dunlop Leslie R.A. (1835 – 1921)
“A
Watermill”
Sepia
Wash
Signed
in pencil
(see
reverse for printed backing paper)
4
¼” x 5 ¼” (107mm x 135mm)
8
½” x 9 5/8” (217mm x 245mm) IMAGE IMAGE
George
Dunlop Leslie came from an artistic family.
His father, Charles Robert Leslie R.A. was a genre painter and his
uncle, Robert Leslie was a marine painter.
He studied at Cary’s Art Academy and at the Royal Academy from 1854,
exhibiting there for the first time in 1859 after which he exhibited there
annually. He became an Associate in 1868
rising to full membership in 1876.
He
lived in London at St John’s Wood and was part of the St John’s Wood
Clique. He later lived at “Riverside”,
St Leonard’s Lane, Wallingford, Oxfordshire from 1884 to 1901 and his sister
Mary Leslie who was also an artist lived next door at “Cromwell Lodge”. Whilst living in Wallingford he is credited
with painting four angel murals in St Leonards Church. Another artist James Hayllar also lived in
Wallingford and together they painted a portrait of Queen Victoria for her
Golden Jubilee in 1887. In 1906 he moved
to “Compton House” in Lindfield, Sussex.
Leslie
was also an author with several of his books being published. He illustrated “Our River” in 1888, “Letters to Marco” in
1893 and “Riverside Letters” in 1896. He
also wrote “The Inner Life of the Royal Academy” – a history of the early years
of the Royal Academy. Leslie’s artist
friends and acquaintances included Sir Edwin Landseer, Frederick Walker and
Henry Stacy Marks. His son Peter Leslie
was also an artist.
In
June 2000 his painting “The Daughters of Eve” which, for 40 years hung
unnoticed in Llantarnam Comprehensive School in South Wales, was sold for
£170,000 to a private collector.
Work
by George Dunlop Leslie can be found in the collections of Wallingford Town
Hall, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums; Rusell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum;
Ferens Art Gallery; Wallingford Town
Council Offices; Salford Museum and Art
Gallery; Tate Gallery; National Trust for Scotland, Drum Castle,
Garden and Estate; City of Westminster
Archives Centre; Lady Lever Art Gallery
Kendal
Town Hall; Hartlepool Museums and
Heritage Service; Brighton and; Hove Museums;
Manchester Art Gallery; Walker
Art Gallery; Sudley House; Touchstones Rochdale; Royal Academy of Arts and Guildhall Art
Gallery
