Sancho Panza and the Duchess (1824) Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman (1831) Le Malade Imaginaire, act iii. sc. 6 (1843) Our Saviour Teaching his Disciples a Lesson Humility (1844) The Pharisee and the Publican (1847) The Reading Lesson from an Etching by Raffaelle (1848) Duke's Chaplain Enraged leaving the Table, from Don Quixote (1849) Martha and Mary (1849) The Mother's Return to her Child (1849) Several works were commissioned and bought by James Lenox. Those works were on display in the Lenox Library, which upon demolition, were donated to the New York Public Library. Many of his more important subjects exist in varying replicas. Leslie possessed a sympathetic imagination, which enabled him to enter freely into the spirit of the author whom he illustrated, a delicate perception for female beauty, an unfailing eye for character and its outward manifestation in face and figure, and a genial and sunny sense of humour, guided by an instinctive refinement which prevented it from overstepping the bounds of good taste. In addition to his skill as an artist, Leslie was a ready and pleasant writer. His Life of his friend Constable, the landscape painter, appeared in 1843 is regarded as one of the classics of artistic biography. He also wrote a Handbook for Young Painters, a volume embodying the substance of his lectures as professor of painting to the Royal Academy, in 1855. In 1860, Tom Taylor edited his Autobiography and Letters, which contain interesting reminiscences of his distinguished friends and contemporaries. Leslie's letters paint the man as affectionate, social, candid, modest and eager for instruction and improvement, always seeking the society of the best and most eminent of persons to whom he could gain access without intrusion or forwardness. Taylor also finished Leslie's Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, which was published in 1865. The painting May-day in the Time of Queen Elizabeth is examined in Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poem On May Day, as part of her Poetical Catalogue of Paintings in The Literary Gazette (1823). Notes Writings Memoirs of the Life of John Constable ed C.R.Leslie 1843, Chapman & Hall, London 1896 Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with Notices of Some of his Contemporaries ed Tom Taylor, John Murray, London 1865 Handbook for Young Painters ( with illustrations),John Murray, London 1855 Autobiographical Recollections of C. R. Leslie with Selections from his correspondence Ed. Tom Taylor, Ticknor & Fields,