Monday 6 June 2016

Edwin Landseer – part 6


Sir Edwin Landseer
portrait by J.C. Watkins 1870

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802 – 1873) was an English artist best known for his animal paintings and sculptures. Landseer’s popularity in Victorian Britain was considerable, and his reputation as an animal painter was unrivalled. He is particularly associated with Scotland, which he first visited in 1824, and you will see that many of his works are of Scottish subjects. In 1858 the government commissioned Landseer to make four (now famous) bronze lions for the base of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square. Edwin Landseer died in October 1873, and his death was widely marked in England. He was buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London.

For fuller notes on Landseer see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 - 5 also. This part 6, the final part of a 6 – part series on the works of Edwin Landseer:



n.d. A Stray Shot
Oil on canvas 118.6 x 139.7 cm
Sheffield City Art Galleries, UK

n.d. Bob
Oil on canvas 13.4 x 45.4 cm
Private Collection

n.d. Bolton Court in Olden Time
Oil on canvas 101.6 x 127 cm
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, UK

n.d. Catherine Seyton Looking from the Battlements at Loch Leven Castle
Oil on canvas 40.5 x 34.2 cm
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK

n.d. Chevy Chase
Oil on panel 44.4 x 60.4 cm
Sheffield City Art Galleries, UK

n.d. Collie Bitch
Oil and pencil on card 14 x 15.1 cm
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK

n.d. Dead Fawn
Ink over graphite 25.7 x 36.2 cm
Harvard Art Museums-Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

n.d. Deer in a Landscape
Oil on panel
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK

n.d. Duchess of Bedford's Hut, Glenfeshie
Oil on panel 59.7 x 44.5 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

n.d. Fighting Dogs Catching Their Breath
Oil on canvas 77 x 102 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

n.d. General Phipps, Mrs Norton and 2nd Baron Alvanley at the Theatre

n.d. Ginger
Oil on canvas 14.3 x 17 cm
Abbotsford, Melrose, Scotland, UK

n.d. Head of 'Driver', a Deerhound Owned by the 5th Duke of Gordon
Oil on board 39.4 x 29.2 cm
Brodie Castle, Scotland, UK

n.d. Head of a Deerhound
Oil on canvas 45.7 x 61 cm
Leeds Art Gallery, UK


1878 Head of a Deerhound Engraved by C.G.Lewis after Edwin Landseer
18 x 15.cm (sheet)
n.d. Highland Dogs
Oil on Metal 43.2 x 54.3 cm
Private Collection

n.d. Highland Lassie
Graphite, charcoal and white chalk
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

n.d. Interior of a Highland Byre
Oil on canvas 44.5 x 59.7 cm
West Park Museum, Macclesfield Silk Museums, UK

n.d. Lady Evelyn Leveson Gower and the Marquis of Stafford
Mezzotint by Samuel Cousins after Edwin Landseer
Harvard Art Museums-Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray

n.d. Lord Ellesmere, and His Pony, 'Jack'
Oil on canvas mounted on board 47.3 x 39.7 cm
Glynn Vivian Art Collection, Swansea, UK

n.d. On the Downs
Oil on canvas 87 x 134.5 cm
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK

n.d. Return from Hawking (the Family of Lord Egerton)
Mezzotint by Samuel Cousins
Harvard Art Museums-Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray

n.d. Scottish River Scene with Cattle in a Meadow
Oil on board 25.5 x 34.5 cm
Anglesey Abbey, Lode, Cambs., UK

n.d. Sketch of a Hunt in Full Cry
Graphite on laid paper 22 x 27.5 cm

n.d. Stag and Hound
Oil on board
Private Collection

n.d. Stag and its Young
Brush and brown wash over graphite 10.5 x 13.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

n.d. Study of a Dog
Black chalk heightened with white and red chalk 17.7 x 24.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

n.d. Study of a Dog Facing Left
Graphite 13.5 x 18.3 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

n.d. Study of a Dog Facing Right
Graphite 13.5 x 18.4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

n.d. Study of a Dog
Oil on canvas 71 x 91.5 cm

n.d. Study of a Frog
Oil on paper 10.2 x 13 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

n.d. Study of a Tiger

n.d. The Barn
Pen and brown ink over graphite 9.5 x 17.9 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

n.d. The Highland Nurses
Oil on canvas 70 x 89 cm
Private Collection

n.d. The King of the Castle
Oil on panel 49.5 x 67.3 cm
Private Collection

n.d. The Monkey Who Had Seen the World
Oil on panel 47 x 54.6 cm
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

n.d. The Satyr and a Traveller
Pencil on laid paper 18.5 x 23 cm

n.d. The Trickster
Oil on canvas 69 x 90 cm
University of Dundee, UK

n.d. The Young Laird
Oil on canvas 45 x 59.5 cm
Sheffield Art Galleries, UK

n.d. Three Studies of a Stag
Pencil on paper 21.6 x 15.2 cm
Milwaukee Art Museum, WS

n.d. Tiger
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on buff paper 17.8 x 25.2 cm
Harvard Art Museums-Fogg Museum, Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund

n.d. Two Greyhounds

n.d. Two Stags Running
Brush and brown wash over graphite 10.7 x 13.8 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

n.d. Uncle Tom
Oil on Canvas 70.7 x 91.5 cm
Tate, London

Friday 3 June 2016

Edwin Landseer – part 5

1860s Edwin Landseer
carte-de visite 8.3 x 5.6 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802 – 1873) was an English artist best known for his animal paintings and sculptures. Landseer’s popularity in Victorian Britain was considerable, and his reputation as an animal painter was unrivalled. He is particularly associated with Scotland, which he first visited in 1824, and you will see that many of his works are of Scottish subjects. In 1858 the government commissioned Landseer to make four (now famous) bronze lions for the base of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square. Edwin Landseer died in October 1873, and his death was widely marked in England. He was buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London.

For fuller notes on Landseer see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 - 4 also. This part 5 of a 6 – part series on the works of Edwin Landseer:



1850 (exhibited) A Dialogue at Waterloo
Oil on canvas 193.7 x 388 cm
Tate, London

1850c Portrait of John Gibson, R.A.
Oil on canvas 92.5 x 72 cm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

1850c The Honourable Mrs Norton
Oil, charcoal and crayon on canvas 91.5 x 71.1 cm
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham

1851 Monarch of the Glen
Oil on canvas 163.8 x 169 cm
National Museum of Scotland

1851c A Group of Animals, Geneva
Oil on canvas 144.8 x 261.6 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1852 The Deer Pass
Oil on canvas 98.7 x 210.8 cm
National Museum of Wildlife, Jackson, Wyoming

before 1853 Morning (Two Dead Stags and a Fox)
Oil on canvas 142.2 x 261.6 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

before 1853 Night (Two Stags Battling by Moonlight)
Oil on canvas 142.2 x 261.6 cm
Philadephia Museum of Art, PA


1856 (Exhibited) Saved
Oil on canvas

1859 Saved! Mixed media in chine collé after Edwin Landseer
British Museum, London

1866-72c He is Saved
Lithograph after Edwin Landseer 20 x 31.4 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

1858 A Stag at Tarbet
Pastel on paper 33 x 50 cm
Private Collection

1858-59c Doubtful Crumbs
Oil on canvas 62.2 x 74.6 cm
Wallace Collection, London

1860 Study of a Dog Lying Down
Oil on canvas
Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT

1860c Deerstalker's Return (after Edwin Landseer)
Etching 14.6 x 17.6 cm published by Ernest Gambart

1860c Dogs Worrying a Frog (after Edwin Landseer)
Etching published by Ernest Gambart


1860c Four Irish Greyhounds (after Edwin Landseer)
Etching published by Ernest Gambart

1860c Flood in the Highlands
Oil on canvas 177.8 x 312.7 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, UK

n.d. Mother and Child: Sketch for 'The Flood'
Black and white chalk with stump, heightened with pastel, on grey paper 41.8 x 33.9 cm

1860c Study of a Greyhound
Oil on card 12.7 x 9.5 cm
Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT

1860c The Ladies Pets (After Edwin Landseer)
Etching published by Ernest Gambart

1860c The Sweep (After Edwin Landseer)
Etching published by Ernest Gambart

1861 The Shrew Tamed (aka The Pretty Horsebreaker)
Oil on canvas 84 x 128 cm

1862c Study of a Lion
Oil on canvas 91.4 x 137.8  cm
Tate, London

1864 Man Proposes God Disposes
Oil on canvas
Royal Holloway College, University of London

1865 Lady Godiva's Prayer
Oil on canvas 143 x 112 cm
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, UK

1865 Queen Victoria in Windsor Home Park
Oil on canvas 89.5 x 72.5 cm
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK

1865-67 Queen Victoria at Osborne
Oil on canvas 147.8 x 211.9 cm
Royal Collection Trust, Osborne House, UK

1866 Study of Wayside Plants
Oil on canvas 26 x 33 cm
The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK

1866 The Arab Tent
Oil on canvas 154 x 226 cm
Wallace Collection, London

1867 The Wild Cattle of Chillingham
Oil on canvas 228 x 156.3 cm
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

1867c Deer of Chillingham Park, Northumberland
Oil on canvas 228.5 x 155.3 cm
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

1868 Chevy
Oil on canvas 138.4 x 210.8 cm
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

1868 Rent-day in the Wilderness
Oil on canvas 122 x 265 cm
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

1869c The Swannery Invaded by Eagles
Oil on canvas 175.3 x 277 cm
Private Collection

1870c Retrievers with a Hare
Oil on canvas 122 x 160 cm
McManus: Dundee's Art Galleries and Museums, Scotland, UK

1935-40c Head of a Hind
Oil on board 53 x 45 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

1973 Studies of Animals
Charcoal and pencil heightened with white 20.6 x 27.8 cm
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

n.d (Attributed to) Lady Scott
Pencil 18.4 x 8.8 cm
National Portrait Gallery London

n.d A Deer Fallen from a Precipice
Oil on board 47 x 60 cm
Private Collection

n.d. (attributed to) 'Brilliant', a Horse at Manger
Oil on canvas 51 x 61 cm
Mount Stewart - National Trust, Newtownards, Belfast, UK

n.d. A Bullock Train Attacked by a Lion
Oil on canvas 192.5 x 259.5 cm
Dumfries Museum, UK

n.d. A Dead Stag, With Sketched Figures of a Ghilie and Hounds
Oil on board 48 x 60.5 cm

n.d. A Deer Just Shot
Oil on board 47 x 60 cm
Private Collection

n.d. A Dog on Alert
Oil on canvas 44 x 56 cm
Nunnington Hall, Yorkshire - National Trust, UK

n.d. A Highland Maiden
Oil on panel 23 x 34 cm
Private Collection