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Sir Edwin Landseer

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 biographers aim is achieved if he has successfully shown the course of the artists studies, and their result in success of an extraordinary kind. June, 1880. {viii} {x} From Etchings by Edwin Landseer and C. G. Lewis. The head and tail pieces are from Etchings by Edwin Landseer for the Game Card at Woburn Abbey (1825).{xi} {xii} {1} So much of the family history of this artist as it is needful to repeat, or the reader will care to learn, may be briefly told: it begins with his grandfather, who was a jeweller settled in London, where, in 1761,[2] his father, John Landseer, was born. The senior was on intimate terms with Peter, father of the lawyer and politician, Sir Samuel Romilly. Peter Romilly was descended from a distinguished French family, the first of whom known in this country settled near London after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and acquired a fortune as a wax-bleacher. This Peter was a jeweller of note and wealth, established in Frith Street, Soho, and it is probable that common interest in a craft which is so closely allied to art had much to do with directing the minds of John, and consequently those of his family, to design. It is certain that in the early life of Sir Samuel Romilly he{2} gave considerable attention to painting and its sister studiesarchitecture, and anatomy as applied to the arts. His biographer tells us that the future lawyer attended the lectures delivered on these subjects by Dr. William Hunter and James Barry at the Royal Academy, and doubtless those which, as we shall presently see, John Landseer, his friendfor the affection of the fathers was continued with the sonspronounced with noteworthy effect at the Royal Institution. These discourses of John Landseers, as printed and published at a later date, and entitled Lectures on the Art of Engraving, 1807, still supply the body of one of the best text-books in our language on the principles and practice of that art. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 57574
Author: Stephens, Frederic George
Release Date: Jul 24, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English