Charles Leslie (painter)

The younger Charles learned to paint from his uncles, especially George Augustus Williams, whom he lived with in 1856 and 1857 at 32 Castelnau Villas in Barnes at a time when Leslie was already exhibiting works at the Royal Academy.

The lesser-known Charles Leslie was one of the first Victorian landscape artists to portray scenes of the Scottish and Welsh moorlands, and became one of the better-known painters of these themes.

His landscapes often feature stark mountains in the background towering over still waters with open skies above.

[3] He died of liver disease at the age of 46 on 9 September 1886 at Mitcham Road Tooting near Wandsworth, Surrey.

One of his landscapes is also on view at the Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis[4] in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.