1-273-586 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

George 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 art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).