Who was Edwin Landseer?
Painter and Sculptor especially of animals.
Date and Place of Birth:
7th March 1802, London, England.
Family Background:
Son of an engraver, John Landseer.
Education:
Royal Academy Schools, London.
Chronology/Biography of Edwin Landseer:
1813: Won the Silver
Palette of the Society for animal Painting aged 11.
1815: Exhibited
"Dogs" at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
1818: "Fighting
Dogs Getting Wind" was exhibited at the Society of Painters
in Oil and Watercolour.
1821: Landseer's
"Rat Catchers" was exhibited at the Royal Academy and
influenced the French artist Gericault.
1826: Elected Associate
of the Royal Academy.
1831: Elected as
a Member of the Royal Academy. Was to become the favourite painter
of Queen Victoria and the darling of the British public although
his paintings were dismissed as sentimental and technically unadventurous
by the critics.
1850: Knighted.
1865: Refused the
Presidency of the Royal Academy.
1867: Unveiling
of the Landseer Lions around the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar
Square, London.
One of the four bronze lions erected at the corners of
Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London
(© Anthony Blagg)
Major Paintings:
- 1844:
"Shoeing." (Tate Britain, London)
- 1843: "Rout
of Comus." (Tate Britain, London)
Marriage:
Never married.
Date and Place of Death:
1st October 1873, London, England.
Age at Death:
70.
Site of Grave:
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England.
St Paul's Cathedral, London
(© Anthony Blagg)
Places of Interest:
LIVERPPOOL:
Sudley House
LONDON:
Four Bronze Lions at the base of Nelson's Column
in Trafalgar Square. (Unveiled 1867)
Victoria and Albert Museum. (Has drawings from when he was 8 years
old onwards)
National Portrait Gallery
Wallace Collection
SUFFOLK:
Somerleyton Hall and Gardens, Lowestoft
