11/5/2023 0 Comments Edwin landseer paintings![]() It appeared that the lion at the London Zoo, which had been a model for Landseer, had suddenly died and so the secretary of the Zoological Society had sent it straightaway in a cart to Landseer’s home. ![]() There is the story, supposed to have originated with Charles Dickens, of an evening at the house with several of Landseer’s friends when his stony-faced manservant suddenly appeared and enquired “Did you order a lion, sir?”. In addition was a spacious garden and stables – occasionally used to house animals, live or dead, which Landseer needed as models. This was later demolished in 1844 to make place for a small but “rather aristocratic” house (built by Thomas Cubitt, who also built Osborne House on the Isle of Wight for Queen Victoria), which had a small dining room, a billiard room and two larger rooms which Landseer used as a studio, and a room to store props. His first home at this address was a small cottage on the site of Punker’s Barn, at the junction of St John’s Wood Road and Lisson Grove. He lived at number 1, later number 18, St Johns Wood Road from 1825 until his death in 1873. He was elected an Associate at the minimum age of 24, and an Academician five years later in 1831. ![]() At the age of just 13, in 1815, he exhibited works at the Royal Academy as an “Honorary Exhibitor”. A child prodigy whose artistic talents were recognised early on, he studied under several artists, including Benjamin Haydon, who encouraged the young Landseer to perform dissections in order to fully understand animal musculature and skeletal structure. Edwin Landseer was a painter, engraver and author, the son of John Landseer and brother of Thomas, an eminent engraver.
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