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In England. 641 attempt any of those furious hunting combats, for which Snyders obtained such renown. His colouring is cold, and the human figures in his groups are often wanting in character and inferior in handling to the animals ; but, in spite of these drawbacks, his paintings will always appeal powerfully to the sympathies of educated and uneducated alike. Of Sir E. Landseer's oil-paintings, the following are among the most celebrated: — Bolton Abbey; Hawking; There's Life in the Old Dog yet; The Otter Speared; the Sanctuary ; Coming Events cast their Shadows before; the Stag at Bay, — all in private possession : and High Life and Low Life ; Shoeing the Bay Mare ; Dignity and Impudence; Peace; War; a, Dialogue at Waterloo; Alex- ander and Diogenes ; and the Maid and the Magpie, — all in the National Gallery; and A Jack in Office, and the Shepherd's Chief Mourner, in the South Kensington Museum. His drawings and sketches in pen and ink and in water-colours are many of them scarcely less effective than his completed pictures. His elder brother Charles Landseer (1799 — 1879) was a good painter of subject pieces. His most popular works were the Sacking of Basing House and Nell Qwynne. Thomas Creswick (1811 — 1869) made for himself an undying fame as a painter of landscapes. His works are thoroughly English in sentiment and execution. Several well-known artists have collaborated with Creswick. John Phillip (1817 — 1867) deserves notice on account of the rare merit of his pictures, especially in point of colour. He visited Seville twice and painted Spanish scenes with success ; and a few of his latest pictures, such as La Gloria (a Spanish wake) and the Prison Window, eha t T