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Charles Robert Leslie (19 October 1794 – 5 May 1859) was an English genre painter
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“From sheer indolence great mistakes are often made in re-presentation.”
“The gentleness, so utterly removed from insipidity, of Raphael, is a thing of which true taste never tires.”
“Turner will be placed in that class whose genius is such that we can never praise him too much or blame him too much.”
“It was impossible however not to like Turner, there was something so social and cordial in his nature and I believe him to have had a excellent heart.”
“To me the prevailing tone of Rembrandt's mind, as shown in his art, is serenity. Where the subject allows him, his natural disposition seems always tranquil. He is the painter of repose.”
“Turner is my great favourite of all the painters here. He combines the highest poetical imagination with an exquisite feeling for all the truth and individuality of nature; and he has shown that the ideal, as it is called, is not the improving of Nature, but the selecting and combining objects that are most in harmony and character with each other.”
About Charles Robert Leslie
Charles Robert Leslie (19 October 1794 – 5 May 1859) was an English genre painter