62 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



Prince Consort" (1842); "Royal Sports on Hill 

 and Loch " — the Queen, Prince Consort and the 

 Prince of Wales ; and " Dandie Dinmont, the 

 Favourite Old Skye Terrier of Her Majesty" 

 {1854); "Her Majesty at Osborne in 1866" 

 (1867); and "Queen Victoria meeting the Prince 

 Consort on his return from Deerstalking," in 1850 

 (1870). As if to emphasise the intimacy to which 

 he was admitted at Court, the last picture exhibited 

 by him at the Royal Academy was an unfinished 

 sketch of the Queen shown in 1873. the year of 

 his death. 



Among Landseer's most valuable friends were 

 Mr. Jacob Bell and Mr. Thomas Hyde Hills; so 

 large a part did these two gentlemen play in the 

 artist's affairs that their names should in justice 

 have received earlier mention, Mr. Jacob Bell was 

 the son of Mr. John Bell, founder of the well-known 

 firm of chemists in Oxford Street, J. Bell and Co., 

 a man of considerable artistic talent, peculiarly 

 genial disposition and great hospitality. His house, 

 at the corner of Langham Place and Cavendish 

 Place, was the haunt of artists, men of letters and 

 others with whom their host had tastes in common. 



When or how Landseer became acquainted with 

 Mr. Bell cannot now be ascertained, but probably 

 he was introduced to the house by some brother 

 artist. However that may be, the acquaintance 



