1885 - 1974
Leake studied in England, first exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1909, and elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1913. He sailed to the United States in the mid 1920s and worked in New York as an illustrator.
He won prizes from the Salmagundi Club (1923, 1926, 1927) and at the National Academy where his The Baptism won the Thomas B. Clark Prize in 1934 and his Into the Night won the Isidor Medal in 1937.
After World War II, Leake moved to the Florida Keys where he lived and worked aboard his boat, the "San Marco", and concentrated on watercolors of old Key West and marine subjects.
He exhibited at Ferargil and Grand Central Art Galleries.
He won prizes from the Salmagundi Club (1923, 1926, 1927) and at the National Academy where his The Baptism won the Thomas B. Clark Prize in 1934 and his Into the Night won the Isidor Medal in 1937.
After World War II, Leake moved to the Florida Keys where he lived and worked aboard his boat, the "San Marco", and concentrated on watercolors of old Key West and marine subjects.
He exhibited at Ferargil and Grand Central Art Galleries.
