Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873) was the greatest British animal painter of the nineteenth century, and for his contemporaries the greatest artist of the age. The secret of his success lay in his ability to invest the natural world with feeling and imagination, allied to brilliant descriptive powers. Landseer was born in 1802, the son of the author and engraver, John Landseer, and his wife, Jane Potts. A child prodigy, he first exhibited animal studies at the Royal Academy in 1815, when he was just thirteen. By the time of his first visit to Scotland in 1824, he had already made a name for himself with works like Fighting Dogs Getting Wind and Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveller . Scotland became an inspiration for his finest works. In his paintings he caught the spirit of what it was that attracted visitors to Scotland: the wildness and splendour of the landscape, the sense of space and solitude, and the spectacle of nature red in tooth and claw. Landseer's enthusiasm for the Highl
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Richard Ormond is a highly regarded author. He was Director of the National Maritime Museum, and before that Deputy Director of the National Portrait Gallery. He is now an independent art historian and commits himself full time to writing. He is also Director of the John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonne project. He has written extensively on the artist John Singer Sargent and his published titles include John Singer Sargent (1970), Sir Edwin Landseer (1981), Winterhalter and the Courts of Europe (1987), Sargent Abroad (1997), Sargent and Italy (2002) and John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits (2004).
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History thru the eyes of art.,
This review is from: Monarch of the Glen: Landseer in the Highlands (Hardcover)
Lush vivid paintings of the harsh realities of Scottish History. One is closer to the past through this book.
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