James Leakey

He also produced small interiors with groups of rustic figures and Sir Francis Baring purchased one of those for £500.

With the exception of a time in London from 1821 to 1825, during which he was intimate with Thomas Lawrence, David Wilkie, and other leading painters, Leakey's life was mostly passed at Exeter.

[2] Leakey exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1821 The Marvellous Tale, in 1822 The Fortune Teller, in 1838 portraits and landscapes, and in 1846 The Distressed Wife.

His portrait of John Haddy James (1788-1869), surgeon, is in the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.

In 1846 Leakey published a plate by Samuel Cousins, from his portrait of John Rashdall, minister of Bedford Chapel, Exeter.