biography
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Landseer, Sir Edwin (Henry)
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| lived:
| (1802–73)
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| biography:
| Artist, born in London, UK. Trained by his father to sketch animals from life, he exhibited at the Royal Academy at the age of 13. Dogs and deer were his main subjects, often with the Highlands of Scotland as a backdrop. His paintings include ‘Rout of Comus’ (1843), and ‘Monarch of the Glen’ (1851), and he modelled the four bronze lions at the foot of Nelson's Monument in Trafalgar Square (unveiled in 1867). He was knighted in 1850. |
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