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.] | |
|---|---|
| PAGE | |
| 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] |