Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873), Painter

Animal-painter; youngest son of the artist, John Landseer; entered RA schools, 1816; began to exhibit, 1817 gradually established himself with his animal pictures as the most popular painter of the age; designed the lions for the Nelson monument in Trafalgar Square.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.