Literature and Art 



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Edwin drew pictures of the shaggy donkeys and 

 thick-fleeced sheep that grazed around them. 



Landseer's father encouraged and helped the 

 boy in his drawing, and when Edwin grew older 

 he was sent to an art school. There he worked so 

 earnestly that, while he was still a very young 

 man, he became well 

 known as a painter of 

 animals. He painted 

 pictures of horses, deer, 

 cattle, and sheep, of 

 squirrels and of mon- 

 keys, but he was espe- 

 cially fond of painting 

 dogs. He showed his 

 fondness for dogs when 

 very young, and on 

 account of it was sometimes jokingly called "the 

 little dog-boy." 



Landseer loved animals. He studied their looks 

 and actions and habits, and because of this love 

 and knowledge of them his pictures are full of life. 



From a painting by Edwin Landseer 

 MY DOG 



Tell in your own words all you can of this 

 artist. 



