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Artists›Sir Edwin Henry Landseer

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Sir Edwin Henry Landseer

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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.

Source: Tate · Trust score: 40% · Updated 10d ago

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Artworks (7)

A Farmer Feeding his Pony in Geneva (recto); Seated Friar (verso)

1835 · Pen and brown ink and watercolor with graphite (recto) and graphite (verso) on tan wove paper, edge-mounted to cream wove paper

16.7 × 25.1 cm (6 5/8 × 9 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Head of a Roebuck and Two Ptarmigan

1825 · Oil on panel

22.5 × 30.4 cm (8 7/8 × 12 in.); Framed: 37.5 × 45.5 × 7.7 cm (14 3/4 × 17 7/8 × 3 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Deer (recto); Skull of Giraffe (verso)

1822 · Black chalk (recto), and graphite (verso), on ivory wove paper

22.9 × 17.1 cm (9 1/16 × 6 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Wounded Stag and Dog

1820 · Oil on canvas

50.5 × 68.8 cm (19 7/8 × 27 1/16 in.); Framed: 62.3 × 80.4 × 6.4 cm (24 1/2 × 31 5/8 × 2 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Rearing Horse

1817 · Watercolor heightened with white gouache and graphite, on tan laid paper

10.5 × 12.9 cm (4 3/16 × 5 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Reclining Lion

1816 · Graphite with touches of white chalk, on cream wove paper

11.5 × 18.1 cm (4 9/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait Sketches of Edwin Henry Landseer and Frederick Leighton, with Horsemen

1800 · Graphite, black, and white chalk on brown wove paper

24.3 × 15.6 cm (9 5/8 × 6 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute Chicago
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