Sir Edwin Henry Landseer

1802–1873

*Portrait of Mrs Henry Wells of Redleaf and Sketches of a Man’s Head in Profile, Leaning on his Hand*
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Biography

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (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 at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square.

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Artworks

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Sir Edwin Henry Landseer Dignity and Impudence

1839
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer A Scene at Abbotsford

exhibited 1827

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Sir Edwin Henry Landseer The Harper

1821–2
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer Portrait of Mrs Henry Wells of Redleaf and Sketches of a Man’s Head in Profile, Leaning on his Hand

date not known

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Sir Edwin Henry Landseer Studies of a Dog

1835

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Sir Edwin Henry Landseer High Life

1829, exhibited 1831
Frederick Richard Lee, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer Cover Side (figures and animals by Sir E. Landseer)

1839, ?exhibited 1840
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society

exhibited 1838

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Features

Art Term

Fairy painting

Fairy painting is particularly associated with the Victorian period, art that depicts fairies and other subjects from the supernatural
Tate Papers

Tate Papers no.13: Spring 2010

Tate Papers no.13, Spring 2010 edition, featuring papers on The Sublime Object
Tate Papers

The Arctic Fantasies of Edwin Landseer and Briton Riviere: Polar Bears, Wilderness and Notions of the Sublime

Diana Donald

Nineteenth-century images of the Arctic suggest that the sublime lost its religious and moral dimensions. While Frederic Church’s painting Icebergs …
Tate Papers

Paintings on Canvas: Lining and Alternatives

Stephen Hackney

This paper catalogues major changes in attitude during the last thirty years to conservation practice for the treatment of degraded …