Edwin Landseer – part 3

1843 Edwin Landseer by Alfred, Count D'Orsay
Lithograph 34.2 x 22.3 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, and for earlier works, see parts 1 and 2 also. This part 3 of a 6 – part series on the works of Edwin Landseer:

1833c A Jack in Office
Oil on canvas 50.2 x 66.1 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

n.d. A Jack in Office
Oil on canvas 30.5 x 28 cm
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

1833c Elizabeth Vassall Fox (née Vassall), Lady Holland:
Henry Richard Fox (later Vassall), 3rd Baron Holland; Mrs Brown
Pen and wash 24.1 x 18.8 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London

1833c Loch Avon and the Cairngorm Mountains
Oil on wood 35.2 x 44.5 cm
Tate, London

1833c Ptarmigan
Oil on panel 50.2 x 66 cm
Private Collection

1833c The Eagle's Nest
Oil on millboard 25.4 x 35.6 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1834 A Naughty Child
Oil on board 38 x 27.9 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1834 The Honourable E. S. Russell and His Brother
Oil on canvas 86.4 x 111.8 cm
Kenwood House, London

1834-29c Taking the Deer: The Duke of Atholl with Foresters
Oil on board 48.2 x 63.4 cm
Sudley House, Liverpool Museums, UK

1834-35 Favourites, the Property of H.R.H. Prince George of Cambridge
Oil on canvas 101.6 cm x 125.7 cm
Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT

1834-36 The Duchess of Abercorn and Child
Oil on copper 54.2 x 43.2 cm
Tate, London

1834c A Highland Breakfast
Oil on panel
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

1834c A Highland Scene
Oil on panel 28.8 x 42.2 cm
Wallace Collection, London

1834c Scene in the Olden Time at Bolton Abbey
Oil on canvas 155 x 193 cm
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK

1834c The Falcon (Study for Bolton Abbey in the Olden Time)
Oil on cradled panel 66 x 49.5 cm
Harvard Art Museums-Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

n.d. Bolton Abbey in Olden Time
Mezzotint by Samuel Cousins
Harvard Art Museums-Fogg Museum,
Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray

1834c Suspense
Oil on panel 69.9 x 90.8 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

n.d. Suspense
Mezzotint by Benjamin Phelps Gibbon
Harvard Art Museums-Fogg Museum,
Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray

1835 (exhibited) Sleeping Bloodhound
Oil on canvas 101.6 x 127 cm
Tate, London

After 1835 Sleeping Bloodhound
Mezzotint by Thomas Landseer after Edwin Landseer
Harvard Art Museums-Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray

n.d. Sleeping Bloodhound
Coloured lithograph after Edwin Landseer

1835 before Two Studies of a Stag's Head
Oil on canvas 65 x 47 cm
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

1835 Portrait of Mrs Henry Wells of Redleaf and Sketches of a Man’s Head in Profile, Leaning on his Hand
Ink on paper 18.5 x 23.7 cm
Tate, London

1835 Rachel Russell
Oil on panel 35.5 x 25.4 cm

1835 Studies of Dogs
Ink on paper 24 x 38 cm
Tate, London

1835 The Drover's Departure: A Scene in the Grampians
Oil on canvas 125.8 x 191.2 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1835c Sydney Smith
Pen and wash 23.9 x 18.7 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London

1836 Comical Dogs
Oil on panel 69.8 x 76.2 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1836 Portrait of John Allen
Oil on panel 61 x 45.1 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London

1836 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Oil on panel 59.7 x 43.8 cm
National Portrait Gallery London

1836c A Highland Shepherd's Home
Oil on panel 48 x 59.5 cm
Northern Ireland Office, London, UK Government

1836c Maria
Oil on canvas 55.9 x 46.9 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London 

1837 The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner
Oil on canvas 45.7 x 61 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1837 The Peregine Falcon
Oil on board 50.8 x 36.8 cm
Private Collection

1843 The Peregrine Falcon (after Edwin Landseer)
Coloured engraving by Charles George Lewis published by Graves and Warmsley

The Peregrine Falcon

1843 The Peregrine Falcon (after Edwin Landseer)
Mezzotint by Charles George Lewis 64 x 43 cm

1837c Sketch in the Highlands
Oil on canvas 26.1 x 35.6 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1838 (exhibited) A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society
Oil on canvas 111.8 x 143.5 cm
Tate, London

1838 Queen Victoria's Spaniel, 'Tilco'
Oil on board 35 x 27.5 cm
Anglesey Abbey, Lode, Cambs., UK

1839 Beauty's Bath
(Young future Queen Victoria holding a spaniel)

1839 Dignity and Impudence
Oil on canvas 88.9 x 69.2 cm
Tate, London

1839 Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals
Oil on canvas 113 x 175 cm
Royal Collection Trust, Windsor, UK

1839 Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals (detail)

1839 Macaw, Love Birds, Terrier and Spaniel Puppies, Belonging to Her Majesty
Oil on canvas 130.2 x 71.4 cm
Royal Collection Trust, London