LANDOR, Walter Savage (eld. child of Walter Landor, physician, d. 1805). b. Ipsley court, Warwick 30 Jany. 1775; ed. at Rugby 1785–91; commoner of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1793, rusticated for a year in 1794 but never returned to Oxf.; raised some volunteers with whom he joined Blake’s army in Gallicia Aug. 1808, returned to England Nov. 1808; bought estate of Llanthony abbey, Monmouthshire 1809; lived at Florence 1821–35 and 1859 to death, at Bath 1838–58; is drawn by Dickens in Bleak House as Lawrence Boythorn; author of Poems 1795; Gebir: a poem in seven books 1798, anon., 2 ed. Oxford 1803; Count Julian, a tragedy 1812, anon.; Imaginary Conversations, vols. 1 and 2, 1824, 2 ed. 1826, vols. 3 and 4, 1828, vol. 5, 1829; Pericles and Aspasia 1836, anon.; The Pentameron and Pentalogia 1837; Collected works 2 vols. 1846 and 8 vols. 1876; The last fruit off an old tree 1853, includes 18 new imaginary conversations, and other books. d. Via Nunziatina, Florence 17 Sep. 1864, portrait by Wm. Fisher exhibited at the R.A. 1840, bequeathed by H. C. Robinson to National portrait gallery March 1867; mural monument with bust, unveiled in St. Mary’s church, Warwick 30 Jany. 1888. J. Forster’s Life of W. S. Landor 2 vols. (1869), portrait; J. Devey’s A comparative estimate of modern English poets (1873) 166–83; R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age, i 151–76 (1844); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 437–45; Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington, ii 336–95 (1855); De Quincey’s Works, viii 284–332 (1862), xi 176–98 (1862); H. D. Traill’s New Lucian (1884) 59–84; I.L.N. xlv 385, 386 (1864), portrait.
Note.—In 1857 he published a book entitled Dry Sticks fagoted by W. S. Landor, in which he grossly insulted the wife of the Rev. Morris Yescombe of Bath; they brought an action for libel against him, tried at Bristol assizes 23 Aug. 1858, the jury gave them £1000 damages, Landor had transferred all his English estates to his son and left England for France 14 July 1858, he was eventually obliged to pay the £1000 with £362 for costs under order of the court of chancery, which left him completely destitute. C. Beavan’s Reports xxviii 80–7 (1861); Bristol Mercury 28 Aug. 1858 Suppl. p. 1.
LANDSBOROUGH, David. b. Dalry, Glen Kens, Galloway 11 Aug. 1779; ed. at Dumfries and univ. of Edinb.; minister of Stevenston, Ayrshire 1811–43; minister of the free church at Saltcoats 1843; A.L.S. 1849; chief founder of Ayrshire Naturalists’ club 1850; discovered nearly 70 species of plants and animals new to Scotland, earned title of ‘the Gilbert White of Ardrossan’; received degree of D.D. from an American college 1849; author of Arran, a poem 1828; Ayrshire sketches 1839; Arran, a poem and excursions to Arran 1847; A popular history of British seaweeds 1849; A popular history of British zoophytes 1852. d. of cholera at Saltcoats 12 Sep. 1854. Arran, by the Landsboroughs father and son (1875), memoir pp. 157–228; Scott’s Fasti, vol. 2, part 1, p. 188 (1868); W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation, iii 715 (1863).
LANDSBOROUGH, William (son of the preceding). b. Stevenston, Ayrshire; went to Australia; discovered Mount Nebo and Fort Cooper 1856, discovered sources of the Thomson river 1860; searched for Burke and Wills the explorers 1861; crossed Australia from Gulf of Carpentaria to Melbourne 1862; presented with a service of plate valued at £500, 12 Nov. 1862; member of Queensland assembly 1864–5; government resident in Burke district 1865–8; discovered with G. Phillips the Western river; inspector of brands for East Moreton, Queensland 1868, awarded a grant of £2000. d. Brisbane 16 March 1886. Journal of Landsborough’s expedition in search of Burke and Wills (1862).
LANDSEER, Charles (2 son of John Landseer 1769–1852). b. 1799; pupil of B. R. Haydon, entered schools of the R.A. 1816; A.R.A. 1837, R.A. 1845, keeper of the R.A. 1851 to May 1873; exhibited 73 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 11 at Suffolk st. 1822–79; left £10,000 to the R.A. for foundation of Landseer scholarships. d. 35 Grove End road, London 22 July 1879, portrait by himself exhibited at the R.A. 1879. Sandby’s History of Royal academy, ii 176 (1862); I.L.N. lxxv 109 (1879), portrait; Graphic, xx 128 (1879), portrait.
LANDSEER, Sir Edwin Henry (brother of the preceding). b. 71 Queen Anne st. East (now 33 Foley st.), London 7 March 1802; learnt to draw, etch and paint 1808–14; entered schools of the R.A. 1816, A.R.A. 1826, R.A. 1831, declined the presidency 24 Jany. 1866; lived at 1 St. John’s Wood road, London 1826 to death; painted many portraits of the Queen and royal family 1839–66; taught the queen and prince Albert to etch; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; received large gold medal at Paris universal exhibition 1855; received the commission for 4 lions in bronze for base of the Nelson column in Trafalgar sq. 1859, they were uncovered 31 Jany. 1867; exhibited 179 pictures at R.A., 94 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. 1815–73; 434 etchings and engravings were made from his works down to 1875; his Monarch of the Glen was sold for £7000 April 1892 and £10,000 have been given for the Stag at bay and for the Otter Hunt; a large collection of his works was exhibited at the R.A. 1873–4; illustrated Portraits of the children of the nobility by L. Fairlie 1839 and other works. d. 1 St. John’s Wood road, London 1 Oct. 1873. bur. in crypt of St. Paul’s cath. 11 Oct. F. G. Stephen’s Memoirs of Sir E. Landseer (1874), portrait; Illustrated Review, vol. v 137–44, portrait; James Dafforne’s Pictures by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. (1874); J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists, i 78–95; Sandby’s Royal Academy, ii 143–46 (1862); The Landseer gallery with memoir (1871); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 468–74; Illust. Times 9 Feb. 1867 p. 88, portrait, and p. 89 lions in Trafalgar square.
LANDSEER, George (son of Thomas Landseer 1795–1880). b. 1829; exhibited 21 figure pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1850–58. d. 1 St. John’s Wood road, London 10 March 1878.
LANDSEER, Jessica (dau. of the succeeding). b. 29 Jany. 1810; landscape and miniature painter; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 7 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1816–66. d. Folkestone 29 Aug. 1880.
LANDSEER, John (son of a jeweller). b. Lincoln 1769; landscape engraver; delivered a series of lectures on engraving at Royal Institution 1806; an advocate for the recognition of the claims of engravers by Royal academy; associate engraver of the R.A. 1806; began a periodical Review of Publications of Art 1808, 2 vols., and The Probe 1837; engraver to William IV.; exhibited 1 engraving at Soc. of artists, 17 at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1791–1852; author of Lectures on the art of engraving 1807; Observations on the engraved gems brought from Babylon 1817; Sabean researches 1823; Essay on the carnivora 1823; A series of engravings illustrating events recorded in the scriptures 1833; A descriptive catalogue of fifty of the earliest pictures in the National gallery 1834. d. London 29 Feb. 1852. Sandby’s History of royal academy, i 402–3 (1862); G.M. xxxvii 523–4 (1852).
LANDSEER, Thomas (eld. son of the preceding). b. 71 Queen Anne st. east (now 33 Foley st.), London 1795; pupil of B. R. Haydon; etched and engraved more than 125 of the drawings and pictures of his brother Sir Edwin H. Landseer; engraved Rosa Bonheur’s The Horse Fair about 1860; A.R.A. 1868; exhibited 35 engravings at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–77; illustrated Monkey-ana or men in miniature 1828 and other works; author of The life and letters of William Bewick 1871. d. 11 Grove End road, St. John’s Wood, London 20 Jany. 1880. I.L.N. lii 169 (1868), portrait; Illust. sporting and dramatic news, xii 501 (1880), portrait.