Leslie, Charles Robert (1794–1859)

English painter. He depicted scenes from literature, in particular the works of Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, Walter Scott, and Henry Fielding. A close friend of the painter Constable, he wrote the sympathetic Memoirs of John Constable, RA 1845.

Leslie was born in London. After an early period in Pennsylvania, USA, and a brief interlude 1833 as a drawing teacher at the US Military Academy at West Point, New York State, he lived and worked in England. He became a member of the Royal Academy 1826 with his Sancho Panza in the Apartments of the Duchess 1824. He also wrote A Handbook for Young Painters 1853 and a biography of the portraitist Joshua Reynolds 1865.