5, 1826. Genre painter, pupil of Regnault; won the grand prix in 1792, and studied in Rome for five years; was a better colourist than draughtsman. He was painter to the Duc de Berri, corresponding member of the Institute, custodian of the Louvre Gallery, and knight of the L. of Honour. Published "Annales du Musée" (29 vols., 1801-17), "Vies et Œuvres des Peintres les plus Célèbres" (22 vols., 1803-17), and other works. Works: Eleazer refusing to eat Forbidden Meat (1792); Mother's Lesson, Pastoral (1800); Virginia Bathing (1801); Leda with Castor and Pollux (1806), Louvre; Venus and Cupid (1810); Paul and Virginia (1812); Dædalus and Icarus.—Bellier, i. 896; Biogr. univ., Supplement; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Larousse.
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LANDSEER, CHARLES, born in 1799,
died in London, July
22, 1879. History
painter, son and pupil
of John Landseer,
engraver (1769-1852),
and elder
brother of Sir Edwin
Henry Landseer;
student also
with Haydon and in
schools of Royal
Academy; exhibited at Royal Academy his
Dorothea in 1828; became A.R.A. in 1837
and R.A. in 1845, and keeper in 1851.
Works: Clarissa Harlowe in the Sponging-House
(1833), Bloodhound Bitch and Pups,
Pillaging a Jew's House in Reign of Richard
I., Sacking of Basing House, National Gallery;
Cromwell at Naseby, 1645, National
Gallery, Berlin; Eve of Battle of Edgehill
(1845).—Cat. Nat. Gal. and Royal Acad.;
Sandby, ii. 176.
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LANDSEER, Sir EDWIN HENRY, born
in London, March 7, 1802, died there, Oct.
1, 1873. Animal painter, third son and pupil
of John Landseer, engraver; began to
draw animals when very young, some of his
sketches, made when five, seven, and ten
years old, being preserved at South Kensington.
When fourteen he became a student
of the Royal Academy, and exhibited the
next year Heads of
a Pointer Bitch and
Puppy. He soon
won an unrivalled
reputation as an
animal painter, and
became A.R.A. in
1826 and R.A. in
1830. In 1850 he
was knighted, and
in 1855 received at
the French Exhibition the large gold medal,
and in 1873 the medal at the Vienna Exhibition.
Works: Dogs Fighting (1819); St.
Gothard Dogs finding Traveller in Snow
(1820); Two Dogs, Dog and the Shadow
(1822); Sancho Panza and Dapple (1824);
Highland Breakfast, Suspense (1834),
Drover's Departure (1835), Jack in Office
(1833), Comical Dogs, Old Shepherd's Chief
Mourner (1837), and others, South Kensington
Museum; Cat's Paw (1824); Chevy-Chace
(1826), Duke of Bedford; Return from
Deer-Stalking (1827), Windsor Castle;
Monkey who had seen the World (1828);
Illicit Whiskey-Still (1829), Highland Music
(1830), Low Life, High Life (1831), Hunted
Stag (1833), Sleeping Bloodhound (1835),
Dignity and Impudence (1839), Defeat of
Comus (1843), Shoeing (1844), King Charles
Spaniels (1845), Peace (1846), War (1846),
Alexander and Diogenes (1848), Dialogue at
Waterloo (1850), Maid and Magpie (1858),
National Gallery, London; Poachers Deer-Stalking
(1831), Hermon sale (1882), £840;
Sir Walter Scott and his Dogs (1833); Bolton
Abbey in Olden Time (1834); Return
from Hawking (1837); Life's in the Old Dog
yet (1838); Van Amburgh (1839); Laying
down the Law (1840); Otter and Salmon
(1842); Otter Speared (1844); Shepherd's
Prayer (1845); Monarch of the Glen, Titania
and Bottom (1851); Children of the Mist
(1853); Rough and Ready, Uncle Tom and
Wife, Braemar (1857), C. F. H. Bolckow;
Deer-Stalking (1858); Doubtful Crumbs
