SIR EDWIN LANDSEER, R.A. 53 



His first contributions to the galleries of the 

 British Institution were sent to the exhibition of 

 18 1 8, in which he was represented by two paintings, 

 the " Alpine Mastiffs," 5 feet 3 inches by 4 feet 3 

 inches, upright, and the " Study of a Dog," 1 1 feet 

 3 inches by i foot 2 inches. The former work, 

 which showed St. Bernards, as the breed is 

 alternatively called, reanimating a traveller who 

 has fallen exhausted in the snow, was engraved 

 by his father and brother In 182 1 a quarto 

 entitled " Ttventy Engravings of Lions, Tigers, 

 Panthers and Leopards," was published. The 

 plates were executed by Thomas Landseer " from 

 originals by Rubens, Rembrandt, Reydinger, 

 Stubbs, Spilsbury, and Edwin Landseer." 



It is strange to us to see Edwin Landseer's 

 name modestly following that of the forgotten 

 Spilsbury in this brief list: but in 1821, although 

 he had made his mark in artistic circles, his name 

 was not yet one with which a publisher might 

 conjure. 



In 1822 the artist, now twenty years of age, 

 won a prize of ^150 offered by the directors 

 of the British Institution, with his picture, "The 

 Larder Invaded," in which figured the portrait of 

 his own dog Brutus, a son of Mr. Simpson's Brutus 

 whose picture had been exhibited five years before 

 in the Royal Academy. In the following year we 



