George Dunlop Leslie, artist and Royal Academician Size:XL: 100 x 75cm which was then the highest

which was then the highest classical distinction

Church of St Edmund the King

Vitalism: Henri Bergson

Four upright leather-bound volumes are visible on a desk behind

Mary Aldermanbury

George Dunlop Leslie, artist and Royal Academician Size:XL: 100 x 75cm which was then the highestGeorge Dunlop Leslie, artist and Royal Academician, 1882. The son of the painter Charles Robert Leslie, George Dunlop Leslie (1836 1921) became a Royal Academician in 1876. In his work he specialised in paintings of girls busy with domestic tasks or at play, with an optimistic air heightened by his use of bright colours. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and