Chapter I: Preface: To the Third Edition

The text of a former work on the early productions of Sir Edwin Landseer has been, for the second time, revised and extended by the author; and the subject has been continued to the death of the artist.

The biographer’s aim is achieved if he has successfully shown the course of the artist’s studies, and their result in success of an extraordinary kind.

_June, 1880._

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

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Origin of the Landseer family--Parentage of Edwin Henry Landseer--Thomas Landseer 1

CHAPTER II.

Early life--Landseer’s first studio--Etchings--First picture at the Royal Academy--Haydon’s studio 16

CHAPTER III.

A fully-developed painter--Early paintings--British Institution--The Cat’s Paw 39

CHAPTER IV.

At St. John’s Wood--Chevy Chase--Chief’s Return from Deer-stalking--Made Royal Academician (1830)--Lassie herding sheep 58

CHAPTER V.

Suspense--Highland Shepherd Dog--Bolton Abbey--Drover’s departure--Shepherd’s Chief Mourner--Dignity and Impudence--Otters and Salmon--The Sanctuary 72

CHAPTER VI.

Windsor Castle in the present time--Not caught yet--The Otter speared--Shoeing--The random shot--Dialogue at Waterloo--Landseer knighted 87

CHAPTER VII.

Sir Edwin Landseer--The Monarch of the Glen--Midsummer Night’s Dream--Maid and Magpie--The Flood in the Highlands 94