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(4) Sir Edwin (Henry) Landseer
(b London, 7 March 1802; d London, 1 Oct 1873). Painter, draughtsman, sculptor and etcher, brother of (3) Charles Landseer. He became the best-known member of the family and was one of the most highly respected and popular British painters of the 19th century. He was first trained by his father, who taught him etching, and he then studied with Benjamin Robert Haydon and at the Royal Academy Schools in London. Precociously gifted, he drew competently from childhood and in 1813 he won the Silver Palette for draughtsmanship at the Society of Arts. In 1815 he exhibited at the Royal Academy for the first time, showing some drawings of a mule and of the heads of dogs. From an early age he was a frequent visitor to the menagerie in Exeter Change in the Strand, London, where he drew lions, monkeys and other animals. Animals remained the main subject of his art, and Haydon encouraged him to study their anatomy through dissection.
Part of the Landseer family
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- Landseer, Edwin (Henry)
- Hanover, House of
- Landseer
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- Albert, Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1819-61)
- Bicknell, Elhanan
- Cavendish, William Spencer, 6th Duke of Devonshire (1790-1858)
- Holloway, Thomas
- Percy, Algernon, 4th Duke of Northumberland
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- Sheepshanks, John
- Tate, Henry
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- Wells, William (i) (1768-1847)
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- Reproduction of works of art, §2(iii): 19th century
- Atkinson, Thomas Lewis
- Cousins, Samuel
- Finden, William
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- Hollyer, Frederick
- Jackson, John Richardson
- Landseer, John (George)
- Landseer, Thomas
- Lewis (i), Charles George (1808-80)
- Mottram, Charles
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- Robinson, John Henry
- Ryall, Henry Thomas
- Tomkins, Charles Algernon
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