Lithograph 'Equestrian Portrait (begun by Sir Edwin Landseer)'1882, J.E. Millais

Description: UNUSD Lithograph 'Equestrian Portrait (begun by Sir Edwin Landseer)' 1882, Artists: Edwin Henry Landseer, John Everett Millais, Matted, Framed (Excellent wood Frame) 'Equestrian Portrait (begun by Sir Edwin Landseer)' 1882, Completed by Sir John Everett Millais. Held by the Tate, London. From Famous Pictures of the World, c1900. Condition: UNUSED Dimensions, Approx.: Image: Height:…………..5½" Width:……………3½" Frame: Height:…………..11½" Width:…………..…9½" Weight:……………………………1 Lb 9 OZs <<>><<>><<>><<>> Landseer was a notable figure in 19th-century British art, and his works can be found in Tate Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Kenwood House and the Wallace Collection in London. He also collaborated with fellow painter Frederick Richard Lee. Landseer's popularity in Victorian Britain was considerable, and his reputation as an animal painter was unrivalled. Much of his fame – and his income – was generated by the publication of engravings of his work, many of them by his brother Thomas. Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. However, his best-known works are the lion sculptures at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. Landseer was born in London, the son of the engraver John Landseer A.R.A. and Jane Potts. He was something of a prodigy whose artistic talents were recognised early on. He studied under several artists, including his father, and the history painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, who encouraged the young Landseer to perform dissections in order to fully understand animal musculature and skeletal structure. Landseer's life was entwined with the Royal Academy. At the age of just 13, in 1815, he exhibited works there. He was elected an Associate at the age of 24, and an Academician five years later in 1831. In 1823 Landseer was commissioned to paint a portrait of Georgiana Russell, Duchess of Bedford. Despite her being twenty years older than he was, they began an affair. He was knighted in 1850, and although elected to be president of the Royal Academy in 1866 he declined the invitation. In his late thirties Landseer suffered what is now believed to be a substantial nervous breakdown, and for the rest of his life was troubled by recurring bouts of melancholy, hypochondria, and depression, often aggravated by alcohol and drug use. In the last few years of his life Landseer's mental stability was problematic, and at the request of his family he was declared insane in July 1872. Death Landseer's death on 1 October 1873 was widely marked in England: shops and houses lowered their blinds, flags flew at half mast, his bronze lions at the base of Nelson's column were hung with wreaths, and large crowds lined the streets to watch his funeral cortege pass. Landseer was buried in St Paul's Cathedral, London. At his death, Landseer left behind three unfinished paintings: Finding the Otter, Nell Gwynne, and The Dead Buck, all on easels in his studio. It was his dying wish that his friend John Everett Millais should complete the paintings, and this he did.[24] Miscellaneous Landseer was rumored to be able to paint with both hands at the same time, for example, paint a horse's head with the right and its tail with the left, simultaneously. He was also known to be able to paint extremely quickly—when the mood struck him. He could also procrastinate, sometimes for years, over certain commissions. The architect Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was named after him and was his godson—Lutyens' father was a friend of Landseer. <<>><<>><<>><<>> John Everett Millais (1829-96) The Victorian English painter and book illustrator John Everett Millais - associated initially with the Pre-Raphaelites - was an infant prodigy, who became an extremely rich and fashionable portraitist. Indeed, his virtuoso portrait art, at times on a par with other 19th-century greats like John Singer Sargent and Thomas Eakins, helped him to become one of the first "rock-star" celebrities of English figurative painting. A hugely visible figure in Victorian art, he was elected President of the Royal Academy in London. Many paintings by John Everett Millais are now available as prints in the form of poster art. Biography Millais was born in Southampton. His family, having lived for some time in Jersey and northern France, moved in 1838 to London, where his precocious talent could be properly developed. Between the ages of 11 and 17 he attended the Royal Academy Schools, becoming the youngest-ever pupil. His first exhibited oil was the conventional romantic Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru (1846; Victoria and Albert Museum, London).<<>><<>><<>><<>>Comes from smoke free home

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