Editing Edwin Landseer
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'''Sir Edwin Henry Landseer''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|RA}} (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor,<ref name=":0">{{cite DNB |first=William Cosmo |last=Monkhouse |wstitle=Landseer, Edwin Henry |volume=2 |pages=64–68}}</ref> well known for his [[animal art|paintings of animals]] – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. However, his best-known works are the [[lion sculpture]]s at the base of [[Nelson's Column]] in Trafalgar Square. |
'''Sir Edwin Henry Landseer''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|RA}} (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor,<ref name=":0">{{cite DNB |first=William Cosmo |last=Monkhouse |wstitle=Landseer, Edwin Henry |volume=2 |pages=64–68}}</ref> well known for his [[animal art|paintings of animals]] – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. However, his best-known works are the [[lion sculpture]]s at the base of [[Nelson's Column]] in Trafalgar Square. |
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==Life== |
==Early Life== |
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Landseer was born in London, the son of the engraver [[John Landseer]] A.R.A.<ref name=cotes>{{cite book|title=A Victorian Salon: Paintings from the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum|publisher=Russell-Cotes Art Gallery in association with Lundl Humphries|isbn=0-85331-748-8|year=1999}}</ref> and Jane Potts.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry (1802–1873), animal painter|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-15984|access-date=2020-11-02|year = 2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/15984}}</ref> He was something of a [[Child prodigy|prodigy]] whose artistic talents were recognised early on. He studied under several artists, including his father, and the [[history painting|history painter]] [[Benjamin Robert Haydon]], who encouraged the young Landseer to perform [[dissection]]s in order to fully understand animal musculature and skeletal structure.<ref name=":0" /> Landseer's life was entwined with the [[Royal Academy]]. At the age of just 13, in 1815, he exhibited works there as an “Honorary Exhibitor”. He was elected an Associate at the minimum age of 24, and an Academician five years later in 1831.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry |volume= 16 | pages = 166–167 }}</ref> |
Landseer was born in London, the son of the engraver [[John Landseer]] A.R.A.<ref name=cotes>{{cite book|title=A Victorian Salon: Paintings from the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum|publisher=Russell-Cotes Art Gallery in association with Lundl Humphries|isbn=0-85331-748-8|year=1999}}</ref> and Jane Potts.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry (1802–1873), animal painter|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-15984|access-date=2020-11-02|year = 2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/15984}}</ref> He was something of a [[Child prodigy|prodigy]] whose artistic talents were recognised early on. He studied under several artists, including his father, and the [[history painting|history painter]] [[Benjamin Robert Haydon]], who encouraged the young Landseer to perform [[dissection]]s in order to fully understand animal musculature and skeletal structure.<ref name=":0" /> Landseer's life was entwined with the [[Royal Academy]]. At the age of just 13, in 1815, he exhibited works there as an “Honorary Exhibitor”. He was elected an Associate at the minimum age of 24, and an Academician five years later in 1831.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry |volume= 16 | pages = 166–167 }}</ref> |