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Edwin Landseer
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.
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culture · English painter and sculptor (1802–1873) · painter · sculptor · architectural drafter · etcher · artist · also Edwin Landseer, Sir Edwin Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Edwin Henry Landseer (Sir), A.P.A. Edwin Landseer, E. Landseer
Born 7 March 1802 · Died 1 October 1873 · Q328369
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: Edwin Landseer’s The Monarch of the Glen: Victorian hypocrisy and violence
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1876· 1 entry
A 30-foot self-righting lifeboat, built by Woolfe of Shadwell, costing £275, was gifted to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and placed at Chapel Lifeboat Station in Lincolnshire
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1873· 1 entry
Died 1873-10-01.
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1862· 1 entry
Landseer painted a portrait of Louisa Caroline Stewart-Mackenzie holding her daughter Maysie
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1858· 1 entry
The government commissioned Landseer to make four gold lions for the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, following the rejection of a set in stone by Thomas Milnes
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1850· 1 entry
And although elected to be President of the Royal Academy in 1866 he declined the invitation and the position went to Francis Grant
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1828· 1 entry
Was commissioned to produce illustrations for the Waverley Edition of Sir Walter Scott's novels
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1824· 2 entries
And the Highlands in particular, which provided the subjects (both human and animal) for many of his important paintings
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Which had a great effect upon Landseer
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1823· 1 entry
Landseer was commissioned to paint a portrait of Georgiana Russell, Duchess of Bedford
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1815· 1 entry
Exhibited works there as an “Honorary Exhibitor”
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1802· 1 entry
Born 1802-03-07.
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