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LANDSEEK 5, 182G. Genre painter, pupil of Regnault ; won the grand prix in 171)2, and studied in Rome for five years ; was a better colourist than draughtsman. He was painter to the Due de Berri, corresponding member of the Institute, custodian of the Louvre Gallery, and knight of the L. of Honour. Published " Annules da Musc'e " (2!) vols., 1S01-17), ' Vies et (Envres des Peintres les plus Ce- IMires" (22 vols., 1803 17), and other works. Works: Eleazer refusing to cat Forbidden Meat (171)2) ; Mother's Lesson, Pastoral (1800) ; Virginia Bathing (1801) ; Leda with Castor and Pollux (180(1), Louvre; Venus and Cupid (1810) ; Paul and Virginia (1812) ; Da'dalus and Icarus. Bellier, i. 890 ; Biogr. univ., Supplement ; Villot, Cat. Louvre ; Larousse. LANDSEER, CHARLES, born in 1799, died in London, Ju- ly 22, 1879. History painter, son and pu- pil of John Land- seer, engraver (1769 -1852), and elder brother of Sir Ed- win Henry Land- seer; student also with Haydon and in schools of Royal Academy ; exhibited at Royal Academy his Dorothea in 1828 ; became A.R.A. in 1837 and R.A. in 1845, and keeper in 1851. Works : Clarissa Harlowc in the Sponging- House (18:53), Bloodhound Bitch and Pups, Pillaging a Jew's House in Reign of Richard I., Sacking of Basing House, National Gal- lery ; Cromwell at Naseby, 1045, National Gallery, Berlin ; Eve of Battle of Edgehill (1845). Cat. Nat. Gal. and Royal Acad. ; Sandby. ii. 170. LANDSEER, Sir EDWIN HENRY, born in London, March 7, 1802, died there, Oct. 1, 1873. Animal painter, third son and pu- pil of John Landseer, engraver ; began to draw animals when very young, some of his sketches, made when five, seven, and ten years old, being preserved at, South Kensing- ton. When fourteen he became a student of the Royal Academy, and exhibited the next year Heads of a Pointer Bitch and Puppy. He soon won an unrivalled reputation as an animal painter, and became A.R.A. in 1826 and R.A. in 1830. In 1850 he was knighted, and in 1855 received at the French Exhibition the large gold medal, and in 1873 the medal at the Vienna Exhi- bition. Works : Dogs Fighting (1819) ; St. Gothard Dogs finding Traveller in Snow (1820) ; Two Dogs, Dog and the Shadow (1822) ; Sancho Panza and Dapple (1824) ; Highland Breakfast, Suspense (1834), Drover's Departure (1835), Jack in Office (1833), Comical Dogs, Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner (1837), and others, South Kensing- ton Museum ; Cat's Paw (1824) ; Chevy- Chace (1820), Duke of Bedford ; Rut urn from Deer-Stalking (1827), Windsor Castle; Monkey who had seen the World (1828) ; Illicit Whiskey-Still (1829), Highland Music (1830), Loir Life, High Life (1831), Hunted Stag (1833), Sleeping Bloodhound (1835), Ditjirilij and Impudence (1839), Defeat of Comus (1843), Shoeing (1844), King Charles Spaniels (1845), Peace (1840), War (1846), Alexander and Diogenes (1848), Dialogue at Waterloo (1850), Maid and Magpie (1858), National Gallery, London ; Poachers Deer- Stalking (1831)/Hermon sale (1882), 840 ; Sir Walter Scott and his Dogs (1833) ; Bol- lon Abbey in Olden Time (1834) ; Return from Hawking (1837); Life'sm the Old Dog yet (1838) ; Van Amburgh (1839) ; Laying down the Law (1840) ; Otter and Salmon (1842) ; Otter Speared (1844) ; Shepherd's Prayer (1845); Monarch of the Glen, Titania and Bottom (1851); Children of the Mist (1853); Rough and Ready, Uncle Tom and Wife, Brai'.mar (1857), C. F. H. Bolckow ; Deer-Stalking (1858) ; Doubtful Crumbs