. 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 HIGHWAY TO THE ROYAL CLOSE examination of the annals of painting from the very earliest record to the present time, so far as they have been handed down to us, would fail in producing any one artist who may be put in juxtaposition with Sir Edwin Landseer. Animal-painters there have been, and are, both in Eng- land and on the Continent—artists whose works are held in high estima- tion, and deservedly so; but the
. 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 HIGHWAY TO THE ROYAL CLOSE examination of the annals of painting from the very earliest record to the present time, so far as they have been handed down to us, would fail in producing any one artist who may be put in juxtaposition with Sir Edwin Landseer. Animal-painters there have been, and are, both in Eng- land and on the Continent—artists whose works are held in high estima- tion, and deservedly so; but their pictures want the peculiar charm which is characteristic of him—the elevation of the animal, and especially of the dog, into something that closely approximates to human nature in its generous sympathies. It would be difficult to point to any contemporaneous artist of our own school who, from almost the very outset of his career, has been so successful in winning the good opinion of the public; and this may be readily accounted for in the fact that his pictures, independent of their merits as works of art, appeal to the tastes of thousands of our countrymen and countrywomen : nationally, we love the race of domestic animals, and are interested in everything that relates to them, and Landseer has presented them to us in their most attractive aspects. It was his good fortune, when quite young, to be freely and liberally encouraged, and this good fortune never forsook him. A writer some years ago remarked that, "had his earlier claims on the public attention been neglected, the probability is that, instead of advancing under the cheering auspices of a noble house * to the eminence he has reached, he would have struggled for a season, retrograded, and, by degrees, dwindled, like a thousand others, into ; Admitting the essential and valuable aid that judicious patronage affords to a young artist, if only because it serves to encourage him in his labours, a
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