. The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages . olland, The Library at Holland House, intro-ducing portraits of Lord and Lady Holland. In 1838, Leslie painted for the Queenher Coronation, in which the maiden Queen, and the fair young members of theEnglish aristocracy, figure very gracefully. In 1841, he executed a similar commis-sion, with the Christening of the Princess Royal for his subject. Leslie was elected Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy in 1848, and heldthe appointment till failing health forced him to resign it in 185 1. Leslies much-loved children, bot
. The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages . olland, The Library at Holland House, intro-ducing portraits of Lord and Lady Holland. In 1838, Leslie painted for the Queenher Coronation, in which the maiden Queen, and the fair young members of theEnglish aristocracy, figure very gracefully. In 1841, he executed a similar commis-sion, with the Christening of the Princess Royal for his subject. Leslie was elected Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy in 1848, and heldthe appointment till failing health forced him to resign it in 185 1. Leslies much-loved children, both while young and after they had grown to manhood and woman-hood, are said to have supplied him with many a hint for childish playfulness, girlishshyness, and the elastic vigour of young manhood. The death of one of thesechildren, a cherished daughter and young bride, who faded suddenly and died in herearly prime, is said to have proved at last Leslies death-blow. She died in March,1859. Her father, after struggling in vain with his depression, sank of a complaint,. AUDUBON. 199 from which no fatal result had at first been apprehended, and died in his house in Wood, London, in the May of the same year, 1859, aged sixty-four years. Ona slip of paper attached to his will Leslie had written, I trust I may die as I nowam, in the entire belief of the Christian religion, as I understand it from the books ofthe New Testament, that is, as a direct revelation of the will and goodness of Godtowards the world by Jesus Christ, the Saviour and Judge of the world. Leslie has left a successor to his name and art, whose nymph-like maidens are afarther development of the love of the beautiful. Gilbert Stuart Newton, who was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1795,studied under his uncle, Gilbert Stuart, went to Europe in 1817, and paid one shortvisit to America in 1832. He died in London in 1835. Henry Inman, who was born at Utica, New York, in 1801, studied for some timein New York unde
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