LEONARD, WILLIAM ANDREW

(1848), a bishop, born at South port, Conn., son of William Boardman and Louisa Bulkley Leonard. He was educated at Phillips Academy, And over, Ma ., St. Stephen’s College, Ann andale, N.Y. and at Berkley Division School, Middle town, Conn, He became a deacon in 1871 and a priest in 1873 of the Protestant Episcopal Church and after being rector of various churches including St. John’s, Washington from 1880-9, he was consecrated bishop of Ohio, Oct. 12, 1889. Author: History of the Christian Church, 1878; A Faithful Life, 1888; Bedell Lectures, Witne of American Church to Christianity, 1894 and Biography of Stephen Bank Leonard, Ital. painter, sculptor, architect, an d| engineer. Showing precocity in drawing, he was sent to study at Florence with Andrea del Verrochio, having Perugino for a fellow-pupil. He began his profe ional career about 1472, when he received the patronage of Lorenzo de’ Medici, and about 1480 proceeded to the East as engineer to the sultan of Cairo. Two years later he settled in Milan, where he presently painted his famous Last Supper, a masterpiece which had the distinction of an elaborate criticism and description from Goethe’s pen. After painting other pictures in Milan, and, as an engineer, devising a system of irrigation of the plains of Lombardy, he remoyed to Florence, and in 1502 became architect and eng in eer tO], Cesar Borgia, then Duke of Romagna. The next outstanding incident in his career was the contest with his young rival Michael Angelo, when both were commi ioned to decorate the Sala del Consiglio in the Palazzo dell a Signoria with historical scenes. About 1504 was completed the most celebrated of his easel pictures, a half-length portrait of Mona Lisa, third wife of Zanobi del Giocondo; this was stolen from the Louvre, 1911, Leonardo’s later years were given to the service of France, Francis I. having, in 1516, a igned him an annual allowance of 700 scudi and given him the use of the Chateau Cloux, near Amboise, where he died, not, as often erroneously stated, in the royal arms. Collections of his pictures, all emphasizing his supreme position as an artist, are preserved at Milan, Florence, Paris, Vienna, Venice, the British Museum, and the Royal Library, Windsor. He wrote a Tratt a to dell a Pittura, dealing with the details of his art, published in 1651, and in an Eng. translation, 1721. A portrait of Leonardo from his own hand is in the Royal Library at Turin,