text: " Hence while he perfectly succeeded in catching the spirit of the spot--so much so that Mr Leslie visiting the scenes of his pictures for the first time after his death declares "that he was absolutely startled by the resemblance"--he yet exercised over the whole that creative at least compounding art which arrayed the objects in the forms most harmonious to the eye and grouped the details into a whole telling in the most effective manner the story or conveying the impression it was intended to create