7/31/2023 0 Comments Landseer artist![]() ![]() This monumental canvas, made near the outset of Landseer’s engagement with the Scottish Highlands, was one of his first aristocratic hunting portraits, and a milestone in his rise to prominence. The same dog appears, nuzzling under the hand of its master, George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon (1770–1836), in Scene in the Highlands, with Portraits of the Duchess of Bedford, the Duke of Gordon and Lord Alexander Russell (see fig. The present example is unusual in that it can be directly connected to a more ambitious composition. The picture may be classed among the small oils on board which served the artist as a means to explore his subjects and hone his technique. Landseer depicted the dog with great sensitivity, using delicate brushstrokes, while treating the background landscape more freely. The Painting: This painting depicts a deerhound, which were bred to hunt deer by running them down, a method known as coursing or deer stalking. His best paintings present the Highlands, and especially its pastime of deer hunting, as a paradigm of primal qualities: wild splendor juxtaposed with violent death. Landseer, a perennial visitor to the Highlands since 1824, was among the first painters to carry forward this Romantic vision in his art. Many of Landseer’s works are set in the Scottish Highlands, a rugged region in northwest Scotland that was immortalized in the nineteenth-century imagination as a place of untamed natural beauty and rustic tradition, most prominently in the novels of Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). His popular appeal owed much to his charmingly sympathetic portrayals of beloved pets, but his ambition is most evident in his images of wild animals, which possess a vitality and emotional drama that epitomize his era’s attunement to the natural world. Landseer’s paintings were esteemed by the artistic establishment and noble patrons, including Queen Victoria herself. He invigorated this cherished British artistic tradition with a brilliantly naturalistic style, borne of his prodigious technical skill, honed through rigorous observation, and intensified and elevated by the study of exemplars such as Peter Paul Rubens (see The Met 1990.75) and Frans Snyders (The Met 2001.112). John's Wood, on 20 January 1880.The Artist: Landseer earned success as a painter of animal subjects, most notably dogs and deer, with a specialty in hunting scenes. He edited a biography of William Bewick published in 1871. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1867 for his etchings. He also exhibited paintings at the British Institution and the Royal Academy. He also produced illustrations for Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Devil's Walk (1831). Landseer produced satirical etchings of monkeys in human clothing for Monkeyana, or, Men in Miniature (1827), and dedicated his Characteristic Sketches of Animals (1832) to the Zoological Society. He assisted his brother with giving art lessons to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. ![]() ![]() His soft-ground etchings complimented his brother's animal paintings, and sales of the popular prints (retailing for between 3 and 10 guineas) contributed to his brother's fame and fortune. Thomas continued to make etched copies of Edwin's works in later life, including Dignity and Impudence (1841), Alexander and Diogenes (1852), The Monarch of the Glen (1852) and, his last work, The Font (1875). He began etching aged 14, copying his precocious brother's drawings. He then studied under painter Benjamin Robert Haydon alongside his brother Charles and William Bewick. Like his siblings, Landseer was taught artistic techniques by his father. His son George Landseer became a portrait and landscape painter. He was the only sibling to marry, his wife's name was Belinda. Seven of the children survived to adulthood and all became artists his younger brothers were painters and later Royal Academicians Charles Landseer and Edwin Landseer. Landseer was born in London, the eldest of the fourteen children of actress Jane Potts and engraver John Landseer. Thomas Landseer ARA (1793/94 – 20 January 1880) was a British artist best known for his engravings and etchings, particularly those of paintings by his youngest brother Edwin Landseer. Hand-coloured engraving by Thomas Landseer, after the painting Alexander and Diogenes by Sir Edwin Landseer c.
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