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



Wednesday 1 June 2016

Edwin Landseer – part 4

1852c Edwin Landseer by Sir Francis Grant
Oil on board 30.2 x 25.4 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 - 3 also. This part 4 of a 6 – part series on the works of Edwin Landseer:



1839c Highland Dogs
Oil on metal 43.2 x 54.3 cm
Tate, London

1839c Tethered Rams
Oil on panel 45.7 x 58.4 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1840 A Farmer Feeding his Pony in Geneva
Pen and brown ink and watercolour with graphite on tan wove paper
16.7 x 25.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1840 Horses Taken in to Bait
Oil on canvas 70 x 89.5 cm
Lake District National Trust, UK

1840 Laying Down the Law
Oil on canvas 120.7 x 130.8 cm
Chatsworth House, Bakewell, Derbyshire, UK

1840-41c Miss Ellen Power
Pastel on paper 64 x 48.8 cm
The Wallace Collection, London


1840-43 The bronze lions in Trafalgar Square, London

1840-43 Windsor Castle in Modern Times, 1840-43
Oil on canvas 113.3 x 144.5 cm
Royal Collection, UK



1840-44 A Saluki Dog
Oil on canvas 73.7 x 57.8 cm
Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Burnley, UK

1840-45c Portrait of a Young Girl
Black and white chalk and pastel on buff paper
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

1840-50c A Bellowing Stag
Pen and brown ink over graphite on wove paper 19 x 24.6 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1840c Lion Defending its Prey
Oil on paper mounted on canvas 25.1 x 32.4 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1840c Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt
Oil on canvas 24.4 x 9.2 cm
National Portrait Gallery London

1841 Eos (Prince Albert's favourite bitch)
Oil on canvas 111.8 x 142.9 cm
Royal Collection Trust, UK

1842 A Pair of Brazilian Monkeys, The Property of Her Majesty
Oil on canvas 35.9 x 45.1 cm
Royal Collection Trust, UK

1842 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the Bal Costumé of
12 May 1842
Oil on canvas 143 x 112 cm
Royal Collection, UK

1842c The Sanctuary
Oil on canvas 61 x 152.5 cm
Royal Collection Trust, London

1842c There's No Place Like Home
Oil on canvas 63.2 x 75.6 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1842c Ziga, a Badger Dog Belonging to the Hereditary Prince
of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Oil on canvas 94 x 112cm

1843 Bony and Var
(details not found)


1843 The Defeat of Comus
Oil on canvas 88.9 x 168.9 cm
Tate, London

1843 The Duchess of Bedford's Gamekeeper, J. Michie
Oil on board 25.8 x 23.1 cm
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama


1844 (exhibited) Shoeing
Oil on canvas 142.2 x 11.8 cm
Tate, London

1844c Coming Events Cast Their Shadow before Them
(aka The Challenge)
Oil on canvas 96.5 x 211 cm
Private Collection

1844c The Otter Speared, the Earl of Aberdeen's Otterhounds
Oil on canvas 200 x 153.7 cm
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

1845 King Charles Spaniels (‘The Cavalier’s Pets’)
Oil on canvas 69.8 x 90.2 cm
Tate, London

1845 Study of a Ruff
Oil on canvas 33.1 x 24 cm
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK

1845 War
Oil on canvas 31 x 41 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

1845-65c Mare and Foal
Oil on canvas 111.7 x 143 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

1845c Decoyman's Dog and Duck
Oil on canvas 45.1 x 80.7 cm
Private Collection

1846-47 Portrait of Mr. Van Amburgh, As He Appeared with His Animals at the London Theatres
Oil on canvas 175.9 x 238.8 cm
Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT

1847 Queen Victoria at Loch Laggan
Oil on panel, 33.9 x 49.9 cm
Royal Collection Trust, UK

1848 (exhibited) Alexander and Diogenes
Oil on canvas 112.4 x 142.9 cm
Tate, London

1848 A Dog with a Slipper
Oil on panel 43.8 x 63.8 cm
Sudley House, Liverpool Museums, UK

1848 A Random Shot
Oil on canvas 121 x 182 cm
Bury Art Museum, Greater Manchester, UK

1848-51 Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Titania and Bottom
Oil on canvas 82 x 133 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1848c John George Landseer (the artist's father)
Oil on canvas 91.4 x 70.5 cm
National Portrait Gallery London

1849 The Desert
Oil on canvas 177.4 x 270 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

1849-51c Sunset in Scotland
Oil on canvas 23 x 33 cm
Mottisfont Abbey, Romsey, Hampshire, UK