Charles robert leslie biography of alberta
Considered one of Canada's exceptional railway engineers.
«Dressed to kill» by Charles Robert Leslie () #art born Donna Maria Beatrice Olga Alberta Caracciolo in London, England..
Charles Robert Leslie (19 October – 5 May ), was an English genre painter. Born in London, his parents were American, and when he was five years of age he returned with them to their native country.
They settled in Philadelphia, where their son was educated and afterwards apprenticed to a bookseller. He was, however, mainly interested in painting and the drama, and when George Frederick Cooke visited the city he executed a portrait of the actor from recollection of him on the stage, which was considered a work of such promise that a fund was raised to enable the young artist to study in Europe.[1]
He left for London in , bearing introductions which procured for him the friendship of West, Beechey, Allston, Coleridge and Washington Irving, and was admitted as a student of the Royal Academy, where he carried off two silver medals.
At first, influenced by West and Fuseli, he essayed high art, and his earliest important subject depicted Saul and the Witch of Endor; but he soon discover