SIR EDWIN LANDSEER

By FREDERICK G. STEPHENS,
AUTHOR OF “MEMORIALS OF MULREADY,” ETC.

LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, FLEET STREET.
1880.

(All rights reserved.)
TO
HENRY WALLIS, PAINTER,
THE
THANK-OFFERING OF AN
OLD FRIEND.

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.

The text of a former work on the early productions of Sir Edwin Landseer has been, for the second time, revised and extended by the author; and the subject has been continued to the death of the artist.

The biographer’s aim is achieved if he has successfully shown the course of the artist’s studies, and their result in success of an extraordinary kind.

June, 1880.

CONTENTS.

[CHAPTER I.]
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Origin of the Landseer family—Parentage of Edwin Henry Landseer—Thomas Landseer	[1]
[CHAPTER II.]
Early life—Landseer’s first studio—Etchings—First picture at the Royal Academy—Haydon’s studio	[16]
[CHAPTER III.]
A fully-developed painter—Early paintings—British Institution—The Cat’s Paw	[39]
[CHAPTER IV.]
At St. John’s Wood—Chevy Chase—Chief’s Return from Deer-stalking—Made Royal Academician (1830)—Lassie herding sheep	[58]
[CHAPTER V.]
Suspense—Highland Shepherd Dog—Bolton Abbey—Drover’s departure—Shepherd’s Chief Mourner—Dignity and Impudence—Otters and Salmon—The Sanctuary	[72]
[CHAPTER VI.]
Windsor Castle in the present time—Not caught yet—The Otter speared—Shoeing—The random shot—Dialogue at Waterloo—Landseer knighted	[87]
[CHAPTER VII.]
Sir Edwin Landseer—The Monarch of the Glen—Midsummer Night’s Dream—Maid and Magpie—The Flood in the Highlands	[94]
[CHAPTER VIII.]
Man proposes, God disposes—The Connoisseurs—The Swannery invaded—Closing Years—Death of Landseer	[105]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

From Etchings by Edwin Landseer and C. G. Lewis.

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[1.]	[Dogs worrying a Frog.]	Etched by Edwin Landseer	(1822),	[xii]
[2.]	[Low Life.]	” ” ”	(1822),	[7]
[3.]	[A Shepherd’s Dog.]	” ” ”	(1824),	[13]
[4.]	[The Beggars.]	” ” ”	(1824),	[19]
[5.]	[Donkeys on a Common.]	” ” ”	(1824),	[25]
[6.]	[Four Irish Greyhounds.]	” ” ”	(1825),	[Front.]
[7.]	[Eagle and Red Deer.]	” ” ”	(1825),	[31]
[8.]	[The Rabbit Warren.]	” ” ”	(1826),	[37]
[9.]	[Return from Deer-Stalking.]	” ” ”	(1826),	[43]
The Mothers. Drawn by Edwin Landseer in 1837.
[10.]	[Highland Nurse.]	Etched by C. G. Lewis	(1847)	[49]
[11.]	[Mare and Foal.]	” ” ”	(1847),	[55]
[12.]	[Dog and Pups.]	” ” ”	(1847),	[61]
[13.]	[Cow and Calf.]	” ” ”	(1847),	[69]
[14.]	[Donkey and Foal.]	” ” ”	(1847),	[77]
[15.]	[Goat and Kids.]	” ” ”	(1847),	[85]
[16.]	[Sow and Pigs.]	” ” ”	(1847),	[93]
[17.]	[Sheep and Lambs.]	” ” ”	(1847),	[101]

The head and tail pieces are from Etchings by Edwin Landseer for the Game Card at Woburn Abbey (1825).

CHRONOLOGY OF EDWIN HENRY LANDSEER.

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1802	Born at 83, Queen Anne Street East	[16]
1812	Studied at Hampstead	[17]
1815	Exhibited pictures at Royal Academy	[28]
1815	Attended Haydon’s Studio	[32]
1818	Exhibited “Fighting Dogs”	[42]
1822	Received a premium of £150 from the Directors of the British Institution	[51]
1824	First visit to the Highlands	[55]
1825	Took the house in St. John’s Wood	[58]
1826	Made Associate of the Royal Academy	[60]
1830	Made Royal Academician	[62]
1850	Knighted	[93]
1859	Received the Commission for the Lions for the Nelson Monument	[108]
1860	Exhibited “Flood in the Highlands”	[100]
1866	The “Lions” were placed in Trafalgar Square	[108]
1869	The Swannery invaded	[108]
1873	Died October 1st	[112]
1873	Buried in St. Paul’s, October 11th	[112]

DOGS WORRYING A FROG (1822).