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Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.
1802-1873

The London-born sporting, animal, and portrait painter and sculptor Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873) was perhaps the most famous personality of the Victorian art world. A prodigy who entered the Royal Academy Schools at fourteen Landseer helped establish the vogue for pictures of animals in picturesque settings participating in highly charged dramatic narratives--all rendered in bravura painterly technique. His success was phenomenal. He was elected a Royal Academician by the age of twenty-eight and moved easily in the highest circles of society. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were great admirers and patrons, and the Queen knighted the artist in 1850.