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 William John Leech
William John Leech was born in Dublin in 1881 and studied art at the Metropolitan School of Art and later transferred to the Royal Hibernian Academy Schools, where he studied under Walter Osborne.
Leech's student works and early French pictures are dark in tone, and have little in common with the sunny late paintings of Osborne with which he would have been familiar.
Increasingly, Leech became interested in sunlight and deep shadow, capturing the corner of a landscape or a garden, and the sensation of sunlight, with the random eye of a camera.
www.fortunecity.com /westwood/arch/769/irish/Leech.html   (1153 words)

  
 John Leech (1817-1864)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John Leech, the son of a Coffee House proprietor, was born in London on 29th August, 1817.
Leech's teachers should became aware of Leech's superb anatomical drawings and began commissioning him to paint portraits.
Leech's humourous drawings were extremely popular, and were one of the main reasons why the new magazine, Punch, became such a great success.
www.victorianweb.org /art/illustration/leech/leech.html   (490 words)

  
 John Leech
Leech's humourous drawings were extremely popular and was one of the main reasons the magazine became a great success.
Leech was one of the 150,000 special constables recruited in April 1848, when the Chartists held their large Kennington Common demonstration.
John Leech's work contains the finest definition and natural history of the classes of our society; the kindest and the subtlest analysis of its foibles, the tenderest flattery of its pretty and well-bred ways, with which the modesty of subservient genius ever immortalised or amused careless masters.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /CHleech.htm   (607 words)

  
 John Leech MP representing the Manchester Withington Constituency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John Leech, Liberal Democrat MP for Manchester Withington, is highlighted the fact that in many areas the only cash machines available are those which charge fees.
John Leech, Lib Dem MP for Manchester Withington, has called on the Government to take urgent action over a growing jobs crisis among NHS physiotherapists.
John Leech, Liberal Democrat MP for Manchester Withington, has called on Government departments to work together to protect local communities and the environment from the development of huge superstores.
www.john-leech.libdems.org.uk   (671 words)

  
 Peter John Leech
Peter John Leech was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1828 to Peter and Susan Leech.
Leech found that the post lay some 20 miles downstream from the boundary and, as a result, it was moved in June 1868.
After it was closed down in the spring of 1883, Leech applied for the position of city surveyor in Victoria, an appointment he received on March 12, 1884.
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 John Leech
Leech was a good scholar and a fine conversationalist, and after serving in the Senate he represented the county in the Legislature.
Leech’s marriage he and wife united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and all of their children were life-long members of that denomination.
The memory of this pioneer couple will be revered among the hills and valleys of Mercer County as long as the history of pioneer life finds a sympathetic chord in the hearts of their numerous descendants.
www.rootsweb.com /~pamercer/PA/Biographies/john_leech.htm   (424 words)

  
 Leech: Descendants of John Leech of Hart County, KY
Leech: Descendants of John Leech of Hart County, KY JOHN LEECH, b.
JOHN LEECH ("Jack LEECH") (JOHN2, DAVID1, UNKNOWN0) was born September 07, 1768 in York Co. SC, and died March 09, 1844 in Rowletts, Hart Co. Ky. He married ELEANOR McHENRY Abt.
The MARY PAGE.buried in the Leech Cemetery, Rowletts, Hart Co., KY. is not a LEECH; as she was born in Virginia..
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 Leech Families of Mercer County, Illinois   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John Humphries married Catharine Dickison, moved to West Virginia, and obtained a warrant on 1000 acres of land where he raised a family of ten children: John, James, William, Samuel, Richard, Robert, Elizabeth, Isabel (Carlton), Margaret (Leech), and Martha.
William Leech was born in Monroe County, Virginia, in 1821, and came to Mercer County at the age of 21 where he was married in Eliza Township to Miss Eliza Spirling.
Curiously, in the Leech cemetery is buried one Garet Leech, died December 10, 1857, age 75 yr 11 mo 1 dy.
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 Irish Art - William John Leech
Leech is well known for the scenes he painted around the harbour at Concarneau with brightly coloured sails reflecting off the water.
Leech chose an aspect looking west over one of the inlets at the head of the Bay.
At the age of 18 Leech transferred from the Municipal School of Art in Dublin to the schools of the Royal Hibernian Academy.
www.mpfa.ie /Leech.htm   (804 words)

  
 John Leech - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Leech, John (1817–1864), English caricaturist, whose work provides a record of Victorian social life.
John the Evangelist (?-ad 101), in the New Testament, one of the 12 apostles, son of Zebedee and younger brother of Saint James the Great.
Numbered rulers named John are entered below by their countries, in alphabetical order, and by regnal numbers.
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 Family and Friends
John loved to live the good life but was frequently unable to pay for it.
John was the source of Charles' character Mr.
When John was released and a quarrel with Charles' employer resulted in Charles being removed from the Blacking Factory, his mother tried, unsuccessfully, to patch things up and have Charles return to work.
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 European Watercolors — John Leech - The Meet
The English illustrator and caricaturist John Leech showed promise in drawing from an early age, though his long and acclaimed career as an artist was hardly preordained by his youthful activities.
Leech's most popular illustrations, however, were of sporting subjects, in particular hunting.
Leech's original works, however, are very rare, and his fame came primarily from their wide reproduction in publication.
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 John Leech Watch - Manchester Withington Constituency
John Leech asked me in a recent email exchange whether there was *anything* he ever did that I approved of.
It would appear that John Leech can't do his council job when he's in Manchester and when he's in London he is told to contact his local council.
Yvette Cooper also explained that John Leech's proposed change in the definition of greenfield sites would leave people unable to build patios or extensions in their own gardens, and as such she had no plans to change the definition to include gardens.
www.johnleech.org.uk   (750 words)

  
 John Leech hand-colored etchings from "The Comic History of England" 1848
Leech was taught to draw on the wood by Orrin Smith and it was in this field of fl and white work that he was to make his name.
His humour was like his talent, gentle, warm-hearted and positive, his world, the ups and downs of middle class life, the sports of the squirearchy, and the peccadilloes of army officers and undergraduates.
In 1841 he contributed his first block to the newly-established satirical journal "Punch"; Leech's art was ripe for this type of pictorial satire and within a few months he had made it his own, establishing a convention of social humour that was to last until the 1920s.
www.darvillsrareprints.com /Leech.htm   (484 words)

  
 Manchester Liberal Democrats Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John Leech, Liberal Democrat MP for Manchester Withington, is co-sponsoring a Parliamentary Motion in support of Christie Hospital's pioneering 'don't hide wear it with pride' ID card scheme for cancer patients who are turned away from nightspots because of their shaved heads and hats.
John Leech, Liberal Democrat MP for Manchester Withington, recently met Madame Kadidiatou Yonli, wife of the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, at a reception at the House of Commons to announce that 55,089 new trees are to be grown in Africa - thanks to the efforts of local recyclers.
Liberal Democrat MP for Manchester Withington John Leech is on the look-out for local talented business people of the future as he helps to launch the South Manchester leg of the "ifs Young Business Writer of the Year 2007".
www.manchester-libdems.org.uk   (869 words)

  
 John Leech Gallery
John Leech Gallery has approximately 1500 works in stock for sale at any one time and represents the estate of John Weeks while leading contemporary artists Michael Smither, John Walsh, Justin Boroughs and Lyonel Grant are among its stable of contemporary artists.
Initially established as a framer and guilder, John Leech was the creator of Goldie's distinctive, trademark wide fl frames that today are still produced by the John Leech Framing Workshop.
John Leech died in 1879 and the urban redevelopment of the following century saw John Leech Gallery move to a succession of other inner city sites including Lorne Street and Albert Street.
www.nzada.org.nz /members/johnleech/leech.htm   (357 words)

  
 William John Leech ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
John Leech, The Comic History of England by Gilbert Abbott ý Beckett (London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., [ca.
John Leech, The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ý Beckett ([London]: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [ca.
John Leech, One Hundred and Seventy Designs and Etchings (London: Richard Bentley, 1865), 2 vols.
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 John Leech (1817 - 1864) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
John Sartain, Portrait of John A. Sutter, 1850
John Nicholson (Hannah Duncan) and John Nicholson, Jr.
John James Audubon, Douglass" Squirrel, a study for pl. 48 ofViviparous Quadripeds of North America by John James Audubon and Rev. John Bachman (New York: John James Audubon, 1845-1848), circa 1843
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 Liberal Democrats : John Leech MP, Manchester Withington
John Leech entered Parliament at his first attempt in 2001, gaining this seat from the Labour Party.
John Leech was educated at Manchester Grammar School, Loreto College (Moss Side) and Brunel University where he read history and politics.
Before becoming an MP, John worked as a trainee manager for McDonalds and part time at the RAC in Stockport as a call centre insurance claims handler.
www.libdems.org.uk /party/people/mr-john-leech.html   (345 words)

  
 John Leech (caricaturist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other persons named John Leech, see John Leech (disambiguation).
John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character, by Thackeray
William Powell Frith, John Leech: His Life and Work (1891(
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Leech_(caricaturist)   (970 words)

  
 Antique Sports Prints - Equestrian Prints by John Leech
Leech originally was a medical student, though turned to full-time illustrating when his teachers became aware of his superb anatomical drawings and began commissioning him to do portraits.
Leech is best known for his contribution to Punch Magazine which published over 3000 of his drawings and 600 cartoons.
The prints shown here are from illustrations Leech did to accompany sporting stories, most focusing on equestrian themes.
www.printspast.com /equestrian-prints-leech.htm   (95 words)

  
 Biography of John Leech at Lyons Limited Antique Prints
John Leech was an English caricaturist and illustrator educated at Charterhouse with his friend and fellow artist (of the pen), Thackeray.
Leech studied medicine but soon abandoned it for art.
From 1841 until his death, Leech was associated with the periodical Punch.
www.lyonsltd.com /index.cfm/FuseAction/Main.ArtistBio/artistID/346.cfm   (151 words)

  
 Leech Demands Protection for the Environment from Giant Superstores (John Leech MP representing the Manchester ...
Leech Demands Protection for the Environment from Giant Superstores (John Leech MP representing the Manchester Withington Constituency)
Speaking during a debate on the food industry, John Leech questioned the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs about the impact on the environment of huge new supermarkets.
Next news story: 'NHS Jobs Crisis Must Be Tackled' says John Leech MP (Tue 8th Aug 2006).
www.john-leech.libdems.org.uk /news/000008.html   (328 words)

  
 William John Leech biography - Oil painting Art reproductions - Art Sender
William John Leech was reclusive in his lifetime, but his attractive landscapes, portraits and still-lifes, in oil and watercolour, have long been collected.
This catalogue, of the 1996 exhibition by Denise Ferran, is the fruit of many years research and brings together over a hundred works.
Leech was initially attracted by the tonal painting of Whistler, but, in Brittany, developed a vibrant post-modernist palette and distinctive brushwork which sustained him for a long career.
www.artsender.com /artists/Leech_William_John.htm   (158 words)

  
 John Leech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Leech (politician) (born 1971), British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament
John Leech (mathematician) (1926–1992), British mathematician, discovere of the Leech Lattice
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same human name.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Leech   (92 words)

  
 John Leech Online
John Leech in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
John Leech at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Tate Gallery, London, UK Professional Tools:
All images and text on this John Leech page are copyright 1999-2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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 eBay - john leech, Prints, Antiquarian Collectible items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John Leech Jacobites Raeburn Scottish John Brown 1897
John Leech's PIcutres Of Life And Character, Mr Punch
John Leech Pictures of Life and Character Mr.
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 Amazon.com: "John Leech": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John Leech (1817-64) Kitton, F. Key Phrases in this book: Edinburgh Rev, Sir Walter Scott, Saturday Rev, Blackwood's Mag, Fortnightly Rev, Monthly Rev, first pbd, priv ptd, lib edn, ordinary edn, cheap edn, biographical edn (See more)
John Leech submitted a water-colour sketch of Tom Smart and the Animated Chair for The Bagman's Story'; but, in spite of his...
John Leech, Note on the distribution of prime numbers,.1.
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