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Article: The American career of Charles Robert Leslie.(Biography)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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In 1826 the inaugural exhibition of the National Academy of Design in New York City was hailed as a welcome and long overdue step in the country's cultural progress. One writer was especially encouraged because the initiation of the academy's annuals offered the hope of bringing the nation's cultural habits closer to those of England, where a few ambitious Americans had already achieved success: "In England, the talent yearly called forth and embodied in pictures fresh and glowing from the easel, to adorn the apartments of the great and opulent, is immense; two of our most talented countrymen (West and Leslie) swell the number." (1) Pairing Charles Robert Leslie's name ...
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Article: OBIT - WHITELAW, ROBERT LESLIE
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...Robert Leslie Whitelaw, 90, of Blacksburg, passed away at his home yesterday afternoon ... to advanced Alzheimer's disease. Robert was born in mainland China to Leslie and Mary Whitelaw on April 24, 1917. After 10 years in China with his ...
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