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LEM -55
^To gild Leather. Take glair of the whites of eggs, or gum
water, and with a brufh rub over the Leather with either of
them, and then lay on the gold or filver ; let them be dry, and
burnifh them.
To drefs or cover Leather with filver or gold. Take that
which is called brown red, and grind it on a ltone with a mul-
ler, adding water and chalk; and, when the latter is diffolved,
rub, or light y dawb the fkins over with it, till they look a httle
whitilh ; and then lay on the leaf filver or gold, before they are
quite dry; laying the leaves a little over each other, that there
may not be the leaft part omitted ; and when they have well
doled with the Leather, and are fufhciently dried on and hard-
ened, rub them over with a polifher made of fmooth ivory, or
of the fore-tooth of a horfe, and it will appear very bright.
LEG, a part of the body too well known to need defcription.
For the manner of drawing Legs, feet, &c. See Plate VI.
Sir Peter LELY, was born in Weftphalia in Germany in the
year 1617, fcholar of De Grebber of Haerlem, and came into
England in the year 1641. He at firft painted landfcape with
fmall figures; but at length betook himfelf to face-painting, in
which he exceeded all his contemporaries in Europe. He ac-
quired a wonderful ftyle in painting, both as to his correct
draught and beautiful colouring; but more efpecially in the
graceful airs of his heads, and the pleafing varieties of his pof-
tures, together with the genteel and loofe management of his
draperies, he excelled moft of his predeceffors.
And, notwithstanding the critics fay he preferred almofr. in
all his faces a languifhing air, long eye, and a drowfy fweetnefs,
peculiar to himfelf, for which they reckon him a manneriff, and
that he retained a little of the greenifh caft in his complexion ;
whatever of this kind may be objected againft this great painter,
his works are highly efteemed both here and abroad, and equal-
ly valued and envied.
He was likewife a good hiftory-painter; his crayon draughts
are alfo admirable, and thofe are reckoned the. mofi valuable of
his pieces, which were all done intirely by his own hand.
The earl of Pembroke recommended him to king Charles II,
who made him his principal painter, and knighted him.
He died of an apoplexy in London in the year 1680, and 63d
of his age. There is a marble monument, with his buft, raifed
for him in Covent-garden church.
Balthazar Van LEMENS, a hiftory-painter, born at Antwerp.
His manner was very free, and often very graceful. His draw-
ings and fketches are excellent. He died in London in the year
J 704.
Remigius Van LEMPUT, alias REM EE , was a famous co-
E 4 pier,
^To gild Leather. Take glair of the whites of eggs, or gum
water, and with a brufh rub over the Leather with either of
them, and then lay on the gold or filver ; let them be dry, and
burnifh them.
To drefs or cover Leather with filver or gold. Take that
which is called brown red, and grind it on a ltone with a mul-
ler, adding water and chalk; and, when the latter is diffolved,
rub, or light y dawb the fkins over with it, till they look a httle
whitilh ; and then lay on the leaf filver or gold, before they are
quite dry; laying the leaves a little over each other, that there
may not be the leaft part omitted ; and when they have well
doled with the Leather, and are fufhciently dried on and hard-
ened, rub them over with a polifher made of fmooth ivory, or
of the fore-tooth of a horfe, and it will appear very bright.
LEG, a part of the body too well known to need defcription.
For the manner of drawing Legs, feet, &c. See Plate VI.
Sir Peter LELY, was born in Weftphalia in Germany in the
year 1617, fcholar of De Grebber of Haerlem, and came into
England in the year 1641. He at firft painted landfcape with
fmall figures; but at length betook himfelf to face-painting, in
which he exceeded all his contemporaries in Europe. He ac-
quired a wonderful ftyle in painting, both as to his correct
draught and beautiful colouring; but more efpecially in the
graceful airs of his heads, and the pleafing varieties of his pof-
tures, together with the genteel and loofe management of his
draperies, he excelled moft of his predeceffors.
And, notwithstanding the critics fay he preferred almofr. in
all his faces a languifhing air, long eye, and a drowfy fweetnefs,
peculiar to himfelf, for which they reckon him a manneriff, and
that he retained a little of the greenifh caft in his complexion ;
whatever of this kind may be objected againft this great painter,
his works are highly efteemed both here and abroad, and equal-
ly valued and envied.
He was likewife a good hiftory-painter; his crayon draughts
are alfo admirable, and thofe are reckoned the. mofi valuable of
his pieces, which were all done intirely by his own hand.
The earl of Pembroke recommended him to king Charles II,
who made him his principal painter, and knighted him.
He died of an apoplexy in London in the year 1680, and 63d
of his age. There is a marble monument, with his buft, raifed
for him in Covent-garden church.
Balthazar Van LEMENS, a hiftory-painter, born at Antwerp.
His manner was very free, and often very graceful. His draw-
ings and fketches are excellent. He died in London in the year
J 704.
Remigius Van LEMPUT, alias REM EE , was a famous co-
E 4 pier,