"The Monarch of the Glen (painting) The Monarch of the Glen is an oil-on-canvas painting of a red deer stag completed in 1851 by the English painter Sir Edwin Landseer. It was commissioned as part of a series of three panels to hang in the Palace of Westminster in London. As one of the most popular paintings throughout the 19th century, it sold widely in reproductions in steel engraving, and was finally bought by companies to use in advertising. The painting had become something of a cliché by the mid-20th century, as ""the ultimate biscuit tin image of Scotland: a"
"favourite of Queen Victoria, and had become famous for his paintings and drawings of animals. His later works include the sculptures of the lions at the foot of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. From the 1840s, he produced a series of intricately observed studies of stags based on those he had seen on the trips he had been making to the Scottish Highlands since 1824. In 1850, Landseer received a national commission to paint three subjects connected with the chase for the Refreshment Rooms of the House of Lords, for which he produced ""Monarch of the Glen"" and two other"
"selling at auction Sir Edwin Landseer's iconic 1851 painting ""The Monarch of the Glen"" – which the company owns, but which has been on loan to the National Museum of Scotland since 1999 – as it had ""no direct link to our business or brands"". The sale was expected to raise over £10 million. Ian Jack, writing in ""The Guardian"", compared the proposed sale to ""feeding old masters into the boilers of luxury liners to keep the steam up"", and stated that ""any business with a sense of history would give the picture to a public gallery in Scotland, the"
"Edwin Landseer Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. However, his best known works are the lion sculptures in Trafalgar Square. Landseer was born in London, the son of the engraver John Landseer A.R.A. He was something of a prodigy whose artistic talents were recognised early on. He studied under several artists, including his father, and the history painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, who encouraged the young Landseer to perform dissections in order to fully understand animal"
"latter having been brought to Britain by the Romans but not becoming widespread in Scotland until the 19th century. Landseer's painting of a red deer stag, ""Monarch of the Glen"", is one of the most notable images of Victorian Scotland. The species, a member of the biological order artiodactyla or ""even-toed ungulates"", is still 400,000 strong, although its existence in the pure form is threatened by hybridisation with introduced sika deer. Very much a hill-dwelling species in Scotland (and so typically smaller in stature than its European forest-loving cousins), it is generally replaced by roe deer in lower-lying land. Although"
"of Edwin Landseer, the well-known painter of animals and pastoral English landscapes as well as the designer of the four bronze lions at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London. Landseer was the godfather of Henry's only son, Edwin. In the book of printed correspondence between Ellen and Edwin Collen, titled ""Letters from my Mother,"" Ellen mentioned that Landseer sent a note and a gift at Edwin's baptism. She also mentions going to the funeral of Charles Landseer. By the 1840s, Henry Collen was established as a portrait painter of some note. It is also at this time"
"and park, then just outside [[Coventry]], now a Grade II* [[listed building]] used as a [[Registry office]] in the suburb built on the historic park. Cheylesmore was a significant art collector, mainly of contemporary British painting. The star of his collection, and his posthumous sale at [[Christie's]] in May 1892 (lot numbers and prices realized noted), was undoubtedly [[Monarch of the Glen (painting)|""The Monarch of the Glen""]] (lot 42, £7,245) by Sir [[Edwin Landseer]], one of the most popular paintings of the age. Altogether 31 of the 86 lots were by Landseer, many bought at his studio sale in 1874."
"2004 movie ""Finding Neverland"" featured a Great Pyrenees as J. M. Barrie's pet, on whom Nana was based. J. M. Barrie owned a Landseer Newfoundland called Luath. Roxie from the movie A Dog's Purpose (film) is a black and white Landseer. Landseer dog The Landseer is a dog breed. The breed is not recognized by all kennel clubs . It is not to be confused with a white and black Newfoundland, which is also often called a ""landseer"". The breed was named after the British painter Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, because in 1838 he created the painting ""A Distinguished Member"
"designer of the bronze lions at the base of Nelson's Column, unveiled in 1867. Landseer and other animal painters such as Briton Rivière also became well known for sentimental paintings of dogs. Landseer's ""The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner"", showing a sheepdog sitting beside a coffin, was particularly well-regarded by John Ruskin, who described it as ""a touching poem upon canvas, which, it cannot be doubted, has caused many a stout heart to 'play the woman' by moving it to tears"". Many of the artists of the period were keen huntsmen, and accepted as a given that nature was inherently cruel"
"in the Dordogne, France and elsewhere. Major animal paintings include Albrecht Dürer's 1515 ""The Rhinoceros"", George Stubbs's c. 1762 horse portrait ""Whistlejacket"", Edwin Landseer's 1851 ""The Monarch of the Glen"", and Henri Rousseau's 1891 tiger in an imaginary landscape, ""Surprised!"". Mammals from mice and foxes to elephants play a wide variety of roles in literature and media including photography and film. Mammals including cattle, deer, horses, lions and wolves, along with creatures derived from them, such as werewolves, figure in mythology and religion. Jacques Cauvin has argued that Neolithic animal symbols, with early art depicting figures such as bull gods,"
"Landseer dog The Landseer is a dog breed. The breed is not recognized by all kennel clubs . It is not to be confused with a white and black Newfoundland, which is also often called a ""landseer"". The breed was named after the British painter Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, because in 1838 he created the painting ""A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society"", which shows a dog of this breed. The Landseer Newfoundland dog is known for its sweet disposition, gentleness, and serenity. They enjoy swimming and tend to drool, though not as much as some other giant breeds. During"
"prize-winning animals. In the early 19th century the Scottish Highlands experienced a dramatic upsurge in popularity among the wealthy of Britain, particularly for the opportunities they offered for hunting. One painter in particular, Edwin Landseer (1802–1873), took the opportunity offered by the boom in Scottish travel, travelling to Scotland for the first time in 1824 and returning each year to hunt, shoot, fish and sketch. Landseer became well known for his paintings of the landscapes, people and particularly wildlife of Scotland, to the extent that his paintings, along with the novels of Sir Walter Scott, became the primary means through"
"there in 1834. It was originally bought by Anatole Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato as part of the Demidov collection. From there it passed in 1870 to Henry Eaton, 1st Baron Cheylesmore after whose death in 1891 it realised £1,575 (lot 78) at his sale at Christie's the next year, less than a quarter of the price of the star of the sale, ""The Monarch of the Glen"" (lot 42, £7,245) by Sir Edwin Landseer, one of the most popular paintings of the age. It was bought by his son, William Eaton, 2nd Baron Cheylesmore, who bequeathed it to"
"Work was slowed by Landseer's ill health, and his fractious relationship with Marochetti. The sculptures were installed in 1867. Landseer's death on 1 October 1873 was widely marked in England: shops and houses lowered their blinds, flags flew at half mast, his bronze lions at the base of Nelson's column were hung with wreaths, and large crowds lined the streets to watch his funeral cortege pass. Landseer was buried in St Paul's Cathedral, London. At his death, Landseer left behind three unfinished paintings: ""Finding the Otter"", ""Nell Gwynne"", and ""The Dead Buck"", all on easels in his studio. It was"
"out. The dog reclines on a quayside, while water ripples against the sea-wall. The shadow of the dog is cast on his own flank. The painting was described by ""The Art Journal"" as being ""one of the best and most interesting publications of the year"", and ""Mr Thomas Landseer's first great effort in this department of the art"". A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society is an 1831 oil on canvas work by English painter Sir Edwin Henry Landseer depicting a Newfoundland dog. The original was damaged in a flood whilst on loan"
"in 1785, lived at Edgbaston Hall, Birmingham between 1786 and 1799. While there, he bred Newfoundland Dogs. There is very little else on his experiments with these dogs. His daughter Charlotte married a Beriah Botfield and they had a painting in Norton Hall by Samuel Cox of Daventry painted about 1830-1840 called ""Portrait of Lion, a Newfoundland Dog, and Juba, a Pug Dog of Mrs. Botfield's. This hung in the north front of Norton Hall. This painting would have been made around the same time that Landseer painted his portrait of Lion, the Newfoundland Dog. (See 'Catalogue of Pictures in"
"of Sir Walter Scott's novels. So popular and influential were Landseer's paintings of dogs in the service of humanity that the name Landseer came to be the official name for the variety of Newfoundland dog that, rather than being black or mostly black, features a mix of both black and white. It was this variety Landseer popularised in his paintings celebrating Newfoundlands as water rescue dogs, most notably ""Off to the Rescue"" (1827), ""A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society"" (1838), and ""Saved"" (1856). The paintings combine the Victorian conception of childhood with the appealing idea of noble animals devoted"
"moorhen, pochard, woodlark, little grebe, mistle thrush, song thrush, curlew, magpie, swift, greenfinch, oriole, Cetti's warbler, nightingale, little bustard, great crested grebe, shelduck, pied flycatcher, spotted flycatcher, common flycatcher, tufted duck, pochar, ferruginous duck, azure-winged magpie, buzzard, common buzzard, common scoter, short-toed lark, stonechat, merganser, firecrest, gull-billed tern, siskin, water rail, bunting, reed bunting, black-bellied sandgrouse. Deer, rabbit, European hedgehog, genet, wild cat, wild boar, iberian lynx (endangered species), dormouse, mongoose, bat, cave bat, greater horseshoe bat, buzzard bat, shrew, otter, mouse, polecat, fox, badger, water rat, black rat, lesser noctule. The Iberian lynx, whose habitat is restricted to the"
"and paintings. The most famous painting of a large white and black dog of this type is a portrait called ""A Distinguished Member of Humane Society"" done by the renowned English animal painter Sir Edwin Landseer in 1838. In fact, the subject matter of many of Sir Edwin's paintings focused on these dogs. The dog portrayed in one of the most famous paintings is believed to have saved more than 20 people from drowning. It, therefore, was adopted as a member of the humane society. Males normally weigh 65–80 kg (143–176 lb), and females 55–65 kg (121–143 lb), placing them"
"Laying Down the Law Trial by Jury, or Laying Down the Law as it is commonly known, is an oil-on-canvas painting from 1840 by the English painter Sir Edwin Landseer, which satirises the legal profession. It depicts dogs in the roles of members of the court with a French poodle centre stage as the judge. The painting was inspired by a chance comment by a judge, while at dinner with Landseer, that the French poodle belonging to amateur artist and renowned socialite, the Count d'Orsay, ""would make a capital Lord Chancellor"". Landseer was a member of the Royal Academy and"
"(1835–1910). McCulloch was a student of Knox. His images of places including Glen Coe, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, became parlour room panoramas that defined popular images of Scotland. This was helped by the Queen's declared affection for Scotland, signified by her adoption of Balmoral as a royal retreat. The wildlife around Balmoral was immortalised by English painter Edwin Landseer (1802–73) in the much copied ""Monarch of the Glen"" (1851). In this period a Scottish ""grand tour"" developed with large number of English artists, including Turner, flocking to the Highlands to paint and draw. From the 1870s Farquharson was a"
"Telegraph"" called him ""the pride of the Yorkshire sportsman, and one of the best and most popular horses that ever trod the British turf."" When the racecourse authorities at York instituted a new trial race for the St Leger in 1950, the race was named the ""Great Voltigeur Stakes"" in his honour. Voltigeur was the only racehorse painted by the famous animal painter Edwin Henry Landseer. Landseer's interest was reportedly engaged when he heard that Voltigeur was constantly accompanied by a tortoiseshell cat who slept on the horse's back. Voltigeur initially stood as a stallion at Middlethorpe near York at"
"the dog is held is ""big enough for a ship's anchor"". Eugène Delacroix wrote of the work: Victor Duruy made the same point, writing: Others, such as Gonse, praised Puget: Edwin Landseer's ""Alexander and Diogenes"" presents the encounter between the twain as between two dogs. Alexander is a white bulldog with a military collar who looks down haughtily upon Diogenes, represented as a scruffy farrier's dog in a barrel. Landseer was inspired to create the painting when he encountered two dogs in the street, one observing the other from within a barrel, and was reminded of the encounter between Alexander"
"to humankind, a devotion indicated, in ""Saved,"" by the fact the dog has rescued the child without any apparent human involvement. Landseer's painting ""Laying Down The Law"" (1840) satirises the legal profession through anthropomorphism. It shows a group of dogs, with a poodle symbolising the Lord Chancellor. ""The Shrew Tamed"" was entered at the 1861 Royal Academy Exhibition and caused controversy because of its subject matter. It showed a powerful horse on its knees among straw in a stable, while a lovely young woman lies with her head pillowed on its flanks, lightly touching its head with her hand. The"
"stork, Stanley crane, cattle egret, dromedary camel, wolf guenon, DeBrazza's monkey, klipspringer, Madagascar ground boa, Madagascar tree boa, ostrich, African grooved frog, Lady Ross turaco, Aldabra tortoise, African wild dog, African pancake tortoise, Sudanese plated lizard, and African Slender-snouted Crocodile. Tasmanian devil, koala, echidna, Matschie's tree kangaroo, saltwater crocodile, lorikeet, carpet python, princess of wale's parakeet, wompoo fruit dove, emu, red kangaroo, laughing kookaburra, budgerigar, Micronesian kingfisher, palm cockatoo, Major Mitchell's cockatoo. Asian elephant, Bactrian camel, snow leopard, Malayan tiger, red panda, king cobra, reticulated python, Indian python, wrinkled hornbill, pygmy slow loris, slow loris, orangutan, siamang, Komodo dragon, Chinese"
"alligator, takin, Mandarin duck. Polar bears. Bobcat, cougar, copperhead, milk snake, garter snake, desert tortoise, alligator, bison , black-tailed prairie dog, California sea lion, Mexican wolf, bald eagle, great horned owl, roadrunner, axolotl, golden eagle, turkey vulture, tiger salamander. Caribbean flamingo, scarlet ibis, golden lion tamarin, spider monkey, howler monkey, Cuban amazon, hyacinth macaw, scarlet macaw, golden-collared macaw, Andean tinamou, vine snake, blue poison dart frog, green anaconda, angelfish, toco toucan, sunbittern, red-bellied piranha, emerald tree boa, tree boa, boa constrictor, dwarf caiman, jaguar, ocelot, two-toed sloth, military macaw, Andean condor, caracara, thick-billed parrot, hawk-headed parrot, cotton-top tamarin, sun conure."
"and Landseer. They resemble fine line-engravings and as George Richmond, who knew Carter well, commented to the author of the book, the power of imitation is most extraordinary. Of his original works, his best, and most widely acclaimed is ""A Ratcatcher and his Dogs"" (1849), which drew uniform praise in all its reviews, and a copy of which was acquired by Queen Victoria; The great artist, Landseer described the work as the finest specimen of animal drawing he had ever seen. Other works of importance include ""Our Father who art in Heaven"", and ""Innocence"" (the latter based on a work"
"Like his siblings, Landseer was taught artistic techniques by his father. He then studied under painter Benjamin Robert Haydon alongside his brother Charles and William Bewick. He began etching aged 14, copying his precocious brother's drawings. 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). 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. He assisted"
"Gecko Argentine Black and White Tegu Asian Water Monitor Boa Constrictor Burmese Python Cane Toad Chinese Water Dragon Five-keeled Spiny-tailed Iguana Golden Dart Frog Madagascar Hissing Cockroach Salmon Pink Birdeater White's Tree Frog Woma Vinegaroon Miscalleneous Exhibits African Crested Porcupine African Crowned Crane African Leopard African Lion Aldabra Tortoise American Alligator American Elk Aoudad Bactrian Camel Bengal Tiger Bennett's Wallaby Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur Black-capped Capuchin Black Crested Mangabey Black Swan Blue and Gold Macaw Blue-throated Macaw Brazilian Tapir Capybara Cheetah Chilean Flamingo Chimpanzee Colobus Monkey Common Marmoset Cotton-top Tamarin De Brazza's Monkey Emu Eurasian Eagle-Owl Fallow Deer Golden Pheasant Grant's"
"meerkats, Kafue lechwe, and wallaby. Amur tiger, African lion, Jaguar, Carpathian lynx, grey wolves, Iberian wolves, European bear, Syrian bear, Asian short-clawed otters, Raccoon, Vervet monkeys, Common marmosets, Ring-tailed coati, Slender-tailed meerkats, tapir, capybara, Kafue lechwe, Grant's zebra, sugar gliders, lesser hedgehog tenrec, Parma wallabies, Bennett's wallabies, Reeves's muntjac, Fallow deer, domestic rabbits, raccoon dogs, reindeer, Azara's agouti, African pygmy goats and red fox. Ostrich, greater rhea, white-cheeked turaco, avocets, Indian runner ducks, Helmeted guinea fowl, white-naped crane, great horned owl, great grey owl, burrowing owl, European eagle owl, striated caracara, Himalayan Monal, and golden pheasant. Red-tailed boa constrictor, royal"
"continued to tour in the summer, and exhibited his animals at Exeter Exchange in the winter. The menagerie at Exeter Exchange was very popular during Polito's short period of ownership. It was visited by William Wordsworth and Lord Byron, and animals in his collection were painted by Edwin Landseer and Jacques-Laurent Agasse. The menagerie lions, tigers, hyenas, zebras, kangaroos, and many other exotic animals, and the elephant Chunee, which was shot to death in 1826. His collection was acquired by his brother, John, after his death, and then by a former employee, Edward Cross (also John's father in law). Cross"
"and tuna, to freshwater fish such as trout and carp. Birds such as partridges, pheasants and ducks, and mammals such as deer and wild boar, are among the terrestrial game animals most often hunted for sport and for food. Animals, often mammals but including fish and insects among other groups, have been the subjects of art from the earliest times, both historical, as in Ancient Egypt, and prehistoric, as in the cave paintings at Lascaux and other sites in the Dordogne, France and elsewhere. Major animal paintings include Albrecht Dürer's 1515 ""The Rhinoceros"", and George Stubbs's c. 1762 horse portrait"
"and his third wife Jane Seymour. The animals are: the lion of England, the Seymour lion, the Royal dragon, the black bull of Clarence, the yale of Beaufort, the white lion of Mortimer, the White Greyhound of Richmond, the Tudor dragon, the Seymour panther and the Seymour unicorn. The set of Queens Beasts at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II replaced the three Seymour items and one of the dragons by the griffin of Edward III, the horse of Hanover, the falcon of the Plantagenets and the unicorn of Scotland. Since the reign of King George II, no monarch has"