English country life, and one of these is reproduced in his well-known picture of _Sir Roger de Coverley going to Church_, which was exhibited in 1819. He had previously shown his power in humorous subjects by painting _Ann Page and Slender_. Leslie had discovered his true vocation, and continued to work in the department of the higher _genre_ with unabated success. The patronage of Lord Egremont, for whom he painted, in 1823, _Sancho Panza in the Apartment of the Duchess_, was the means of procuring him many commissions. The picture in the National Gallery, of which we give an illustration, is a replica with slight alterations, executed many years later. He married in 1825, and became a full member of the Academy a year later. In 1831 he exhibited _The Dinner at Page's House_, from "The Merry Wives of Windsor"--one of his finest works. No painter has made us so well acquainted with the delightful old reprobate, Falstaff, with Bardolph, and the merry company who drank sack at the Boar's Head in Eastcheap. There is a repetition of _The Dinner at Page's House_ in the Sheepshanks Collection, slightly varied from the first, and bearing traces of Constable's influence. In 1833, Leslie was appointed teacher of drawing at the American Academy at West Point, and with his family he removed thither. It was a mistake, and the painter returned to England within a year. He illustrated Shakespeare, Cervantes, Goldsmith, and Sterne, the latter furnishing him with the subject of _Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman_. In 1838, Leslie, by request of the Queen, painted _Her Majesty's Coronation_--which is very unlike the usual pictures of a state ceremonial. In 1841 he was commissioned to paint _The Christening of the Princess Royal_. The domestic life of Leslie was peaceful and prosperous, till the death of a daughter gave a shock from which he never recovered. He died May 5, 1859. Mr. Redgrave says of his art, "Leslie entered into the true spirit of the writer he illustrated. His characters appear the very individuals who have filled our mind. Beauty, elegance, and refinement, varied, and full of character, or sparkling with sweet humour, were charmingly depicted by his pencil; while the broader characters of another class, from his fine appreciation of humour, are no less truthfully rendered, and that with an entire absence of any approach to vulgarity. The treatment of his subject is so simple that we lose the sense of a picture, and feel that we are looking upon a scene as it must have happened. He drew correctly and with an innate sense of grace. His colouring is pleasing, his costume simple and appropriate." [Illustration: CAPTAIN MACHEATH. _By_ NEWTON. A.D. 1826. _In the possession of the Marquis of Lansdowne._]