Edwin Landseer: Drawings & Paintings
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Edwin Henry Landseer 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.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 musculature and skeletal structure. Landseer's life was entwined with the Royal Academy. He was elected an Associate at the age of 24, and an Academician five years later in 1831. He was knighted in 1850, and although elected President in 1866 he declined the invitation.Landseer's popularity in Victorian Britain was considerable, and his reputation as an animal painter was unrivalled. Much of his fame-and his income-was generated by the publication of engravings of his work, many of them by his brother Thomas.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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1981906681
ISBN13:9781981906680
Release Date:December 2017
Publisher:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Length:84 Pages
Weight:0.46 lbs.
Dimensions:8.3" x 0.2" x 8.3"
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