Category: Biographies
So much of the family history of this artist as it is needful to repeat, or the reader will care to learn, may be briefly told: it begins with his grandfather, who was a jeweller settled in London, where, in 1761,[2] his father, John Landseer, was born. The senior was on intim...
The years 1862 and 1863 were, so far as the Exhibitions were concerned, significantly void of the fruits of Sir Edwin’s art. But 1864 brought good news and good work again; and...
11. CHAPTER III.Having now brought our artist to the verge of his career; shown the course of his studies; and indicated that quality of his genius which seems to have been most effective in ma...
13. CHAPTER V.In 1834 many place the attainment of Sir Edwin Landseer’s highest level in art; “Suspense” then appeared at the Academy, with “A Highland Shepherd Dog rescuing Sheep from a Snow...
12. CHAPTER IV.“The Cat’s Paw” was sold, and soon after a renewed offer of pecuniary aid that he might establish himself, was accepted by the painter, and he found, near Regent’s Park, a small...
8. CHAPTER I.So much of the family history of this artist as it is needful to repeat, or the reader will care to learn, may be briefly told: it begins with his grandfather, who was a jewelle...
9. CHAPTER II.Edwin Henry Landseer was, as stated above, born in 1802--the year before another animal painter of modern note, Mr. T. S. Cooper--and that event happened at his father’s house,...
15. CHAPTER VII.“The Monarch of the Glen,” exhibited in 1851, was a stag, executed with vigour and soundness of modelling, which recalled some of the finest works of the artist.[1] The group st...
10. Scene 3, where Clifford murders the youth. Edwin Landseer sat for theyoung victim, kneeling, with a rope round his wrists, being then “a curly-headed youngster, dividing his time between Polito’s wild beasts at Exeter Change and the Royal Academy...
14. CHAPTER VI.The pictures contributed to the Academy in 1843 were not very important: one was a scene in Windsor Castle, with portraits of Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Princess Royal, and...
7. CHAPTER VIII.5. CHAPTER VI.6. CHAPTER VII.3. CHAPTER IV.4. CHAPTER V.1. CHAPTER I.2. CHAPTER II.