Charles Robert Leslie - The Last Throw [c.1840]

Charles Robert Leslie - The Last Throw [c.1840], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

Charles Robert Leslie (London, October 19, 1794 - May 5, 1859) was an English genre painter. 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, and his Handbook for Young Painters, a volume embodying the substance of his lectures as professor of painting to the Royal Academy, in 1855.

[Oil on canvas, 47 x 96.5 cm]