Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Autobiographical Recollections
View through CrossRef
The Royal Academician Charles Leslie (1794–1859) also wrote biographies of fellow painters. His life of John Constable and a two-volume work on Sir Joshua Reynolds are also reissued in this series. On his death, the Reynolds work was completed by the journalist and dramatist Tom Taylor (1817–80), who also edited Leslie's two-volume autobiography, published in 1860. Though born in London, Leslie was an American, a child prodigy in drawing, who returned to Britain in 1811 to study painting with Benjamin West and Washington Allston. He had enormous admiration for the paintings of his contemporaries and of the previous generation, and his reminiscences are intended to preserve 'some recollections of those chiefly whom I could praise'. Volume 1 of this lively and self-deprecating work, full of good-humoured anecdotes, is prefaced by an introductory essay by Taylor on Leslie and his art.
Title: Autobiographical Recollections
Description:
The Royal Academician Charles Leslie (1794–1859) also wrote biographies of fellow painters.
His life of John Constable and a two-volume work on Sir Joshua Reynolds are also reissued in this series.
On his death, the Reynolds work was completed by the journalist and dramatist Tom Taylor (1817–80), who also edited Leslie's two-volume autobiography, published in 1860.
Though born in London, Leslie was an American, a child prodigy in drawing, who returned to Britain in 1811 to study painting with Benjamin West and Washington Allston.
He had enormous admiration for the paintings of his contemporaries and of the previous generation, and his reminiscences are intended to preserve 'some recollections of those chiefly whom I could praise'.
Volume 1 of this lively and self-deprecating work, full of good-humoured anecdotes, is prefaced by an introductory essay by Taylor on Leslie and his art.
Related Results
Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography
Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography
Women have been writing about their lives for hundreds of years, and their autobiographical works are a record of the eras and cultures in which they lived. Through nearly 200 alph...
Auditory Perception in Twentieth-Century Self-Narratives
Auditory Perception in Twentieth-Century Self-Narratives
Examines the connection between auditory perception and the formation of subjectivity and identity in 20th-century autobiographical literature, drawing a parallel between poststruc...
Three Pillars of False Memory Prevention
Three Pillars of False Memory Prevention
Conscious recollections of past experiences are prone to distortion, but retrieval monitoring processes help control memory accuracy and avoid false memories. This chapter overview...
Life Writing as World Literature
Life Writing as World Literature
A global array of contributors explore the interplay between translation and circulation, mediums and materialities, and aesthetics and politics in how life writing is shaped by an...
The Worlding of Jean Rhys
The Worlding of Jean Rhys
Best known as the author ofWide Sargasso Sea,Jean Rhys continues to draw growing amounts of popular and scholarly attention. This book explores Rhys's sense of world, the cross-cul...
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age
These Personal Recollections contain the memoirs and a selection of the correspondence of the nineteenth-century polymath Mary Somerville (1780–1872). The book was first published ...
True Lies and Short Takes
True Lies and Short Takes
This gathering of autobiographical essays focuses on different experiences and periods of the author’s life and hybrid identity: a childhood spent in Austria, teenage years in an A...