Charles robert leslie biography of michael jackson

English painter

Charles Robert LeslieRA (19 October 1794 – 5 May 1859) was an English genre painter.

Charles robert leslie biography of michael jackson

Biography

Leslie was born in London to American parents. When he was five years of age he returned with them to the United States, where they settled in Philadelphia. Leslie completed his education and afterwards became apprenticed to a bookseller.

He was, however, mainly interested in painting and 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.

He left for London in 1811, bearing introductions which procured for him the friendship of West, Beechey, Allston, Coleridge and Washington Irving, being 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