Sir Edwin Landseer Dignity and Impudence Painting ID:: 2350 Sir Edwin Landseer1.jpg
Dignity and Impudence 1839 Tate Gallery, London
Sir Edwin Landseer Wild Cattle at Chillingham (nn03) Painting ID:: 23345 new8/Sir Edwin Landseer-824284.jpg
Wild Cattle at Chillingham (nn03) 1867
Oil on canvas 228 x 156 cm 89 3/4 x 61 1/2 in Laing Art Gallery Newcastle Upon Tyne
Sir Edwin Landseer Eos (mk25) Painting ID:: 24213 new8/Sir Edwin Landseer-438897.jpg
Eos (mk25) 1841
Sir Edwin Landseer Isaac Van Amburgh and his Animals (mk25) Painting ID:: 24214 new8/Sir Edwin Landseer-938636.jpg
Isaac Van Amburgh and his Animals (mk25) 1839
Sir Edwin Landseer The Sanctuary (mk25) Painting ID:: 24215 new8/Sir Edwin Landseer-927758.jpg
The Sanctuary (mk25) 1842
Sir Edwin Landseer Queen Victoria at Osborne House (mk25) Painting ID:: 24249 new8/Sir Edwin Landseer-957653.jpg
Queen Victoria at Osborne House (mk25) 1865-7
Sir Edwin Landseer Windsor Castle in Modern Times (mk25) Painting ID:: 24252 new8/Sir Edwin Landseer-234334.jpg
Windsor Castle in Modern Times (mk25) 1841-5
Sir Edwin Landseer Royal Sports on Hill and Loch (mk25 Painting ID:: 24276 new8/Sir Edwin Landseer-965332.jpg
Royal Sports on Hill and Loch (mk25 1850
Sir Edwin Landseer Queen Victoria on Horseback (mk25 Painting ID:: 24293 new8/Sir Edwin Landseer-466833.jpg
Queen Victoria on Horseback (mk25 c 1840
Sir Edwin Landseer Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the Bal Costume of 12 May 1842 (mk25) Painting ID:: 24305 new8/Sir Edwin Landseer-835884.jpg
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the Bal Costume of 12 May 1842 (mk25) 1842-6
Sir Edwin Landseer The Hunting of Chevy Chase Painting ID:: 28155 new3/Sir Edwin Landseer-594943.jpg
The Hunting of Chevy Chase 1825-6
Oil on canvas 143 x 170.8 cm
(56 3/8 x 67 1/4in)
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery (mk63)
Sir Edwin Landseer The Stonebreaker and his Daughter Painting ID:: 28156 new3/Sir Edwin Landseer-566269.jpg
The Stonebreaker and his Daughter 1830
Oil on wood 45/7 x 58.4cm
(18 x 23 in)
Victoria and Albert Museum London (mk63)
Sir Edwin Landseer Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the Bal Costume of 12 may 1842 Painting ID:: 28185 new3/Sir Edwin Landseer-872345.jpg
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the Bal Costume of 12 may 1842 1844
oil on canvas 142.6 x 111.8 cm
(56 x 44in)Royal Collection (mk63)
Sir Edwin Landseer Lady Blessinghtam's Dog Painting ID:: 30941 new4/Sir Edwin Landseer-667272.jpg
Lady Blessinghtam's Dog mk68
1832
Sir Edwin Landseer Monarch of The Glen Painting ID:: 31340 new4/Sir Edwin Landseer-475425.jpg
Monarch of The Glen nn07
24 x 26 in
Sir Edwin Landseer Death of the Wild Bull Painting ID:: 31341 new4/Sir Edwin Landseer-489949.jpg
Death of the Wild Bull nn07
1833-1836. Oil on canvas. Tennant Holdings Ltd., UK.
Sir Edwin Landseer Monarch of the Glen Painting ID:: 32810 new9/Sir Edwin Landseer-337873.jpg
Monarch of the Glen mk81
1851
Sir Edwin Landseer A Majestic Gathering Painting ID:: 37596 new11/Sir Edwin Landseer-386478.jpg
A Majestic Gathering mk127
23x23
Sir Edwin Landseer The Arab Tent Painting ID:: 44065 new16/Sir Edwin Landseer-869594.jpg
The Arab Tent 1866
Oil on canvas,
154 x 226 cm
Sir Edwin Landseer Arab stable ion Painting ID:: 45843 new17/Sir Edwin Landseer-395964.jpg
Arab stable ion mk178
1824 oils on linen 69.6x90.2cm
Sir Edwin Landseer The Arab Tent Painting ID:: 45949 new17/Sir Edwin Landseer-266897.jpg
The Arab Tent mk178
1866
oils on linen
153.6x226.4cm
Sir Edwin Landseer lion a newfoundland dog Painting ID:: 56195 new20/Sir Edwin Landseer-682794.jpg
lion a newfoundland dog 1824,oil on canvas ,59x77 in,149.8x195.6 cm,victoria and albert museum,london,uk
Sir Edwin Landseer monarch of the glen Painting ID:: 56232 new20/Sir Edwin Landseer-623556.jpg
monarch of the glen mk247
1851,oil on canvas,64.5x66.5 in,163.8x169 cm,john dewar and sons ltd,london,uk
Sir Edwin Landseer Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals Painting ID:: 62814 new21/Sir Edwin Landseer-249937.jpg
Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals 1839 Oil on canvas Royal Collection, Windsor Van Amburgh reclines in the cage surrounded by a tiger, a lion, a lioness and two leopards. He wears a coat of mail, presumably not as a form of protection but perhaps, judging by the footwear, as a form of costume (part Roman and part medieval). There are scratches on the skin of his right forearm and on his neck. The sheen on the coats of the animals reveals Landseer's superb technique, as in the balance between the underpaint and the highlight on the lioness, or the spots visible beneath the top layer of paint on the two leopards. Artist: LANDSEER, Sir Edwin Henry Title: Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals (detail) , painting Date: 1801-1850 English : genre
Sir Edwin Landseer Attachment Painting ID:: 71563 new23/Sir Edwin Landseer-885977.jpg
Attachment Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 39 7/8 x 32 7/8 in. (101.3 x 83.5 cm)
Sir Edwin Landseer Windsor Castle in Modern Times Painting ID:: 83033 new24/Sir Edwin Landseer-439769.jpg
Windsor Castle in Modern Times 1840-1843
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 113.3 x 144.5 cm (44 9/16 x 56 7/8 in.)
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Sir Edwin Landseer The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner Painting ID:: 85204 new25/Sir Edwin Landseer-787664.jpg
The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner oil on canvas
Date 1837(1837)
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Sir Edwin Landseer The Cat's Paw Painting ID:: 85750 new25/Sir Edwin Landseer-369875.jpg
The Cat's Paw Date 1824
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Sir Edwin Landseer The Cats Paw Painting ID:: 96545 new26/Sir Edwin Landseer-374456.jpg
1803-1874
British
Sir Edwin Landseer Galleries
Landseer was something of a child prodigy whose artistic talents were recognized early on; he studied under several artists, including his father John Landseer, an engraver, and Benjamin Robert Haydon, the well-known and controversial history painter who encouraged the young Landseer to perform dissections in order to fully understand animal musculature and skeletal structure.
At the age of just 13, in 1815, Landseer exhibited works at the Royal Academy. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy at the age of 24, and an Academician of the Royal Academy five years later in 1831. He was knighted in 1850, and although elected President of the Royal Academy in 1866 he declined the invitation.
Landseer was a notable figure in 19th century British art, and his works can be found in Tate Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Kenwood House and the Wallace Collection in London. He also collaborated with fellow painter Frederick Richard Lee.
Windsor Castle in Modern Times (1841-1845)
Queen Victoria and her family at Windsor Castle.Landseer's popularity in Victorian Britain was considerable. He was widely regarded as one of the foremost animal painters of his time, and reproductions of his works were commonly found in middle-class homes. Yet his appeal crossed class boundaries, for Landseer was quite popular with the British aristocracy as well, including Queen Victoria, who commissioned numerous portraits of her family (and pets) from the artist. Landseer was particularly associated with Scotland and the Scottish Highlands, which provided the subjects (both human and animal) for many of his important paintings, including his early successes The Hunting of Chevy Chase (1825-1826) and An Illicit Whiskey Still in the Highlands (1826-1829), and his more mature achievements such as the majestic stag study Monarch of the Glen (1851) and Rent Day in the Wilderness (1855-1868).
Saved (1856)
Landseer's paintings of dogs were highly popular among all classes of society.So popular and influential were Landseer's paintings of dogs in the service of humanity that the name Landseer came to be the official name for the variety of Newfoundland dog that, rather than being black or mostly black, features a mix of both black and white; it was this variety Landseer popularized in his paintings celebrating Newfoundlands as water rescue dogs, most notably Off to the Rescue (1827), A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society (1838), and Saved (1856), which combines Victorian constructions of childhood with the appealing idea of noble animals devoted to humankind ?? a devotion indicated, in Saved, by the fact the dog has rescued the child without any apparent human direction or intervention.
In his late 30s Landseer suffered what is now believed to be a substantial nervous breakdown, and for the rest of his life was troubled by recurring bouts of melancholy, hypchondria, and depression, often aggravated by alcohol and drug use (Ormond, Monarch 125). In the last few years of his life Landseer's mental stability was problematic, and at the request of his family he was declared insane in July 1872.
Landseer's death on 1 October 1873 was widely marked in England: shops and houses lowered their blinds, flags flew at half-staff, his bronze lions at the base of Nelson's column were hung with wreaths, and large crowds lined the streets to watch his funeral cortege pass (Ormond, Monarch 135). Landseer was buried in St Paul's Cathedral, London .