Landseer and Millais 



I HAVE already given one example of the artist as 

 sportsman in the person of the great sculptor Sir 

 Francis Chantrey, whose enthusiasm for sport both with 

 rod and gun was scarcely inferior to his enthusiasm 

 for the art which has made him famous. I should not, 

 however, be doing justice to the important part which 

 sport has played in the lives of some great artists if 

 I omitted from these pages the names of the two most 

 popular, and perhaps the two most famous, English 

 painters of the Victorian era, Sir Edwin Landseer and 

 Sir John Everett Millais. 



With how many picturesque episodes in Highland 

 sport has not the brush of Landseer made us familiar? 

 " The Monarch of the Glen," " The Return from Deer- 

 stalking," " The Sanctuary," " The Random Shot," and 

 innumerable pictures of noble hounds, have proved how 

 keen was the great animal-painter's sense both of the 

 picturesque and the pathetic in sport. It is mostly, 

 however, with the incidents of sport in the Highlands of 

 Scotland that Landseer has concerned himself. 



His first visit to the Highlands was made in 1824. 



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