. 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. THE " Coming events cast their shadows ; HE motto adopted for this concluding chapter is, as is well known to all acquainted with Landseer's works, the title he appended to one of his most famous pictures; and it can scarcely be considered inappro- priate to what remains to be said of him. During the last two, or three years of his Ufe, few who mixed much with artists and others associated with -art-ma
. 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. THE " Coming events cast their shadows ; HE motto adopted for this concluding chapter is, as is well known to all acquainted with Landseer's works, the title he appended to one of his most famous pictures; and it can scarcely be considered inappro- priate to what remains to be said of him. During the last two, or three years of his Ufe, few who mixed much with artists and others associated with -art-matters, were not cognisant of the fact, that both mentally and physically the great painter's condition was most sad and afflictive, causing the greatest anxiety to his relations and friends. For a very long time prior to his final illness, he was often subjected to fits of great mental depression. " It was very striking,'' says the writer of an excellent notice of the painter, which appeared in the Daily News ^ day or two after his death, «' to hear his moralisings on life as he felt the weight of years telling on his faculties. 'We use our lives unwisely,' he said, ' and very differently from what we suppose when we set out. For the first five-and-twenty years we are learning life, and entering upon it; for the next we live for, and in, some woman, who engrosses us wholly. It is only when we are past fifty that we see things as they are an! have command over them, and really begin to live a rational and self-pos^-d life.' But his case was a hard one to manage. He expected to become entirely deaf at forty, like the majority of his ancestors and his immediate ^^ ^ f ^^^ not become deaf; but he took out his share in other ways. He l-^^^^^^^2x periods of extreme nervous depression, each proximately caused ^y ^2e7^s shock. In one instance it was the murder of Lord Wilham Russell. In ^h r ca it was other deaths of intimate friends; and each time it appeared as if he could neve
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