Painter and illustrator, full name Douglas Michael Leonard, born in Bangalore, India. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, then St Martin’s School of Art, where he studied graphic design, 1954–7. For 15 years Leonard worked as an illustrator. From 1972 he worked mainly as a painter, appearing in many group shows at Fischer Fine Art, which went on to represent him and where he had a series of solo shows. Also exhibited one-man at Harriet Griffin Gallery in New York, in 1977–8 had a retrospective at Gemeentemuseum in Arnhem, Netherlands, and in 1993 a solo show at Thomas Gibson Fine Art which made clear Leonard’s fine abilities as a painter of the nude in the classical tradition. Showed widely in mixed exhibitions on the continent and in America.