SIR EDWIN LANDSEER, R.A. 55 



The appreciation of the artist for Scottish 

 scenery, sports, and distinctively Scottish animals, 

 dates from the year 1824, when Landseer accom- 

 panied Leslie on a journey to the North. We have 

 memorials of a visit paid to Sir Walter Scott at 

 Abbotsford in the portraits of the great novelist- 

 poet and his deer hound, Maida, which figured a 

 few years later in the pictures "A Scene at Abbots- 

 ford " and " Sir Walter Scott in Rhymer's Glen." 

 From this time Scotland cast her spell over him, 

 as the number of pictures he painted of Highland 

 scenery and characters, of deer and deer-stalking 

 incidents, of deer-hounds and Scotch terriers, bear 

 witness. 



In 1826, Landseer, having attained the prescribed 

 age of twenty-four years, was elected an Associate 

 of the Royal Academy. "The Hunting of Chevy 

 Chase " was his sole contribution to the Academy 

 Exhibition of 1826: this picture is now in the 

 possession of the Duke of Bedford. His first 

 important Highland work, " Highlanders returning 

 from Deer Stalking," was shown in the Exhibition 

 1827. 



It was In the autumn of the year 1829 that 

 Landseer became acquainted with the Earl of 

 Tankerville, and laid the foundations of an intimacy 

 which only terminated with the artist's death. 

 Lord Tankerville, in an interesting pamphlet, Remi- 



