Edwin Landseer
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer was an English artists from the 19th century. Landseer's paintings are best known for his paintings of animals including horses, dogs and stags. Most people are more familiar with his lions sculptures which are to be found in Trafalgar Square, London. For those interested in animal artists, you may also like Henri Rousseau and George Stubbs paintings which offer very different styles of similar subjects. Landseer's natural qualities were seen from an early age but his painting style was developed over the length of his career. Edwin Landseer was a key figure and favoured artist with the British monarchy of the time, and commonly called upon to record their lives with his considerable artistic talents. The Edwin Landseer gallery below details some of his finest works.
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Landseer was immediately involved with the Royal Academy and remained connected to it throughout his career. His rise to prominence was from an unusually young age. Landseer was then later knighted in 1850 and his great connections helped him to attract maximum publicity to his paintings and sculptures, but their quality would always speak for itself.
Landseer was also featured in the Tate Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Kenwood House and the Wallace Collection in London. His paintings established themselves as integral parts of 19th century British art.
One fact which brings Edwin Landseer into the lives of even those who do not follow British art of this era is that Newfoundland dogs have become known as Landseer dogs and this seems a suitable decision bearing in mind Edwin's high standards of paintings depicting animals which has become one of the best things for which he is remembered. As well as dogs he also painted stags, deer and horses plus many others.
Edwin Landseer had a breakdown during his early life and later suffered regular imbalances and attacks to his mental state as he continued through his life. Fortunately the eventual acceptance of his insanity had not occured until very late in his life, just before his passing away, and was not to early to completely interfere with his career's achievements. Edwin Landseer will go down as yet another talented artist who experienced such problems through his life, and will surely not be the last.
Landseer was popular then just as he now as a choice artist for reproductions for homes. The difference then was that it was only the middle classes that could afford such a thing. Queen Victoria was an example of how Landseer's career also proved popular with those in the highest levels of British society. As well as his connections with London galleries and museums, Landseer's art had a great connection with Scotland which provided the subjects for many of his paintings, including the likes of The Hunting of Chevy Chase, An Illicit Whiskey Still in the Highlands, Monarch of the Glen and Rent Day in the Wilderness. You can buy any of these right from this website, in any size you need, as a handmade reproduction. All our artists are highly skilled and experienced.
- A Jack in Office
- Arab Stallion
- Child with a drawing
- Dignity And Impudence
- Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals
- Lady Dyke
- Lion Drinking At A Stream
- Monarch Of The Glen
- Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the Bal Costume of 12 May 1842
- Queen Victoria in Windsor Home Park
- Stag and Hound
- Stag And Hound
- Study Of A Dead Stag
- The Arab Tent 1866
- The Faithful Hound
- The Faithful Hound
- The First Leap Lord Alexander Russell on his pony 'Emerald'
- The Highland Nurses
- The Marquess of Stafford and the Lady Evelyn Gower
- The Travelled Monkey
- Wolf And Fox Hunt
