Edwin Landseer

1802–1873 · Romanticism

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. His best-known work is the lion sculptures at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square.

37 paintings

• Study of a rock and a tree
• 'Lion', a Newfoundland Dog (1824)
• The Village Blacksmith (Shoeing of Imaum)
• Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1850)
• Wounded Stag and Dog (1825)
• Head of a Roebuck and Two Ptarmigan (1830)
• A Group of Animals, Geneva (1851)
• Study for the Monkey in "The Cat's Paw" (1824)
• Study of a Dog Lying Down (1860)
• Donald McIntyre (1830)
• Favourites, the Property of H.R.H. Prince George of Cambridge (1834)
• Portrait of Mr. Van Amburgh, As He Appeared with His Animals at the London Theatre (1846)
• A Highland Landscape (1830)
• Boz (1864)
• Dandie Dinmont (1852)
• Däckel (1849)
• Queen Victoria at Loch Laggan
• Hector, Nero, and Dash with the parrot, Lory (1838)
• Princess Alice and Eos (1844)
• Queen Victoria at Osborne (1866)
• Study of a Dead Heron (1832)
• Victoria, Princess Royal, with a Pony (1842)
• Cairnach (1842)
• The Deer-Drive (1847)
• John Allen (1836)
• William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1836)
• Members of the Sheridan Family (1847)
• A Deerhound (1826)
• Copy after Rubens's "Wolf and Fox Hunt" (ca. 1824–26)
• A Deerhound (1826)
• Dying Stag (ca. 1830)
• Deer and Deer Hounds in a Mountain Torrent (1832)
• Monarch of the Glen (1851)
• Lion Defending its Prey (c. 1840)
• The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa Egerton (c. 1853)
• Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler (1820)
• Ptarmigan in a Landscape (1833)