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Sir Edwin (Henry) Landseer Biography

(1802 - 1873)

Related Works

Paintings
1826–9 The Higland Whisky Still (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
1837 The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

1839 Dignity and Impudence (Tate, London)
1843 Rout of Comus (Tate, London)
1843 Coming Events Cast their Shadow Before (The Challenge) (Duke of Northumberland Collection, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland)
1844 Shoeing (Tate, London)
1851 The Monarch of the Glen (John Dewar and Sons Ltd, London)
19th-c Margaret Roper (Ferens Gallery, Hull, England)
Sculpture
1867 Four Bronze Lions (Trafalgar Square, London)

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(born March 7, 1802, London, Eng.—died Oct. 1, 1873, London) British painter and sculptor. He studied with his father, an engraver and writer, and at the Royal Academy. He specialized in animals and developed great skill in depicting animal anatomy; he sometimes humanized his animal subjects to the point of sentimentality or moralizing (e.g., Dignity and Impudence, 1839). He achieved great professional and social success and was a favourite painter of Queen Victoria. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1831 and knighted in 1850. As a sculptor, he is best known for his bronze lions at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square (unveiled 1867).