George Dunlop Leslie RA (2 July 1835 – 21 February 1921) was a British genre painter, author and illustrator.

Fellow artist, James Hayllar, was also a resident of the village and they painted a portrait of Queen Victoria together for her Golden Jubilee in 1887.

[4] In 1889 during his time at Riverside house in Wallingford Leslie is credited with painting four angel murals in St Leonards Church.

[1] Amongst Leslie's artistic friends and acquaintances were Sir Edwin Landseer, Frederick Walker and Henry Stacy Marks.

[5] In June 2000, The Daughters of Eve,[6] considered to be one of Leslie's finest paintings, and which had hung unnoticed for 40 years in a south Wales school (Llantarnam Comprehensive), was sold for £170,000 to a private collector.

[7] This picture was painted in 1890, from one of the windows of the artist's drawing-room at Wallingford, looking out over the garden to the meadow on the opposite bank of the river.