. Pictures by Sir Edwin Landseer, Royal Academician, with descriptions and a biographical sketch of the painter . Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873; Dogs in art; Dogs. CHEVF CHACE. period dates the series of pictures associated with that portion of the kingdom. Here he soon found admirers and friends in many of the nobles and country-gentlemen whose estates supplied him with subjects for his pencil in the mountains and glens tenanted by deer-herds. The first of these works was " The Hunting of Chevy ; It was exhibited at the Academy in 1826; the catalogue showed it to have
. Pictures by Sir Edwin Landseer, Royal Academician, with descriptions and a biographical sketch of the painter . Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873; Dogs in art; Dogs. CHEVF CHACE. period dates the series of pictures associated with that portion of the kingdom. Here he soon found admirers and friends in many of the nobles and country-gentlemen whose estates supplied him with subjects for his pencil in the mountains and glens tenanted by deer-herds. The first of these works was " The Hunting of Chevy ; It was exhibited at the Academy in 1826; the catalogue showed it to have been suggested by a verse of the old ballad Chevy Chace:— " To drive the deere with hound and home, Erie Percy took his way; The chiefest harts in Chevy Chace, To kill and beare ; This picture, which hangs at Woburn Abbey, the seat of the Duke of Bedford, gained for its painter admission Into the ranks of Associates of the Royal Academy at the earliest age, twenty-four, when, by the laws of the institution, a candidate for honours can be admitted. In the duke's collection is also " Stags in the Park at ; It is not without Interest to look back to the list of artists who at that period formed the academical body, only one of whom, Mr. H. W. Pickersgill, survives to remember the election of Landseer. Among these were not a few of whom we now hear little or nothing, and whose works have left scarcely any Impression on the art of the country ; but in the number of Academicians were Beechey, Callcott, Chantrey, Collins, the brothers Danlell, Flaxman, Hilton, Jackson, Lawrence—the President —Leslie, Mulready, Northcote, H. W. Pickersgill, Shee, R. Smirke, Stothard. Soane, Turner, Wilkie, James Ward, Westmacott; and among the Associates were Washington AUston, Constable, Etty, Danby, W. Allan, and Briggs. These were the men—painters, sculptors, and architects—who, nearly half a century ago, were the leaders of the British School of Art In thei
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