. 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 ASSOCIATE-ACADEMICIAN. N 1827 Landseer exhibited at the Academy five pictures, of which the principal were " Highlanders Returning from Deerstalking with Dead Game," and " The Monkey who had seen the ; Of the former of these subjects the artist painted more than one or two, but at this distant date it is difficult to identify them with the period of exhibition ; yet I believe this early example
. 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 ASSOCIATE-ACADEMICIAN. N 1827 Landseer exhibited at the Academy five pictures, of which the principal were " Highlanders Returning from Deerstalking with Dead Game," and " The Monkey who had seen the ; Of the former of these subjects the artist painted more than one or two, but at this distant date it is difficult to identify them with the period of exhibition ; yet I believe this early example is that which was painted for the late Mr. Wells, of Redleaf, and afterwards was in the possession of the late Mr. Fallows, of Manchester, whose collection was sold in 1868, when the "Deer Stalkers" was bought by Messrs. Agnew for 1,680 guineas. A large engraving of it, by Ryall, was published many years ago by the Art-Union of Glasgow; it represents two stalwart Highlanders returning from their sport, with two ponies, a white one and a brown, across whose backs dead deer are slung. On one side of the men is a single dog, and on the other a couple of these animals leashed together, and eyeing very intently the skull of a dead stag which lies by the wayside. The landscape is a mountainous district, half shrouded in mist. The other picture is in the collection of Mr. Thomas Baring. It is a most humorous composition ; the travelled monkey wears the costume of the early part of the last century, his coat being scarlet; and in this gorgeous dress he makes an appearance before his wild brethren of the forest, to one of which he offers a pinch out of his snuff-box, which is accepted, to the discomfiture of the recipient and the amazement of his companions. In the same year the artist sent to the exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy a picture which, from the appended quotation, I assume had for its title " The Death of the ; In that inimitable series of ima
Size: 1532px × 1631px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectdogs, booksubjectland
