SIR EDWIN LANDSEER, R.A. 



manufactory. A boy In the foreground holds a telescope, and carries in the other hand 

 a moorland-bird i scattered about are the various materials for the unlawful work in 

 progress, with a number of other objects^stlll-life, he. The painter has omitted 

 nothing needful to such a scene, and evidently laboured to portray the most minute 

 details no less than the grander features of the composition. The very sprigs of 

 heather and the plumage of the birds received as much attention as the faces of the 

 figures. Were there nothing more in the picture than what has just been described, it 

 would have lacked, however admirable as a true transcript of fact and nature, some- 

 thing to make it valuable to all classes. A touching episode is, therefore, introduced : 

 a ragged and shoeless young girl looks on the busy group with a sad face, for she 

 has no sympathy with her associates ; she leans back and gazes, not wistfully nor 

 even thoughtfully, but with an instinctive foreboding of evil to come. This is the 

 moral. The little maid is of great beauty, with an expression of loveliness and sadness 

 mingled, perfectly In unison. The whole arrangement of the picture, the composition, 

 and the execution, are admirable. 



"Canine Attachment," exhibited in 1830, represents a very affecting incident, 

 referred to In the catalogue when the picture appeared. " In the spring of 1803, a 

 young gentleman of talent, and most amiable disposition, perished by falling from a 

 precipice of the mountain Helvellyn. His remains were not discovered till three, 

 months afterwards, when they were found guarded by the faithful terrier. 



" ' How long didst thou think that his silence was slumber ? 

 How many long days and long nights didst thou number i 

 Ere he faded before thee, the friend of thy heart ? ' " 



Scott. 



This picture was bought, when exhibited, by the late Mr. E. R. Tunno, of Wainford 

 Park, Hampshire ; and was sold. In 1863, at Christie's, for the sum of 1,010 guineas ; 

 and again. In 1870, at the sale of the collection of the late Mr. W. Delafield, of 

 Knightsbridge, for 550 guineas : bought by Messrs. Agnew. 



Before proceeding to notice his subsequent works, mention must be made, though 

 out of chronological order, of two or three of his earlier pictures; for example, 

 "The Dog and the Shadow," painted In 1822, now in the Sheepshanks collection ; 

 " Sancho Panza and Dapple," of the date 1824, also in the same collection. "The 

 Intruder," of which an engraving Is given here, is yet earlier -than these. It was 

 painted in the year 1818, and was purchased by the then Sir O. de Malpas Grey 

 Egerton, in whose collection, or rather, in that of his descendants, the picture, I 

 presume, still is. Though the work of a mere youth, it has the spirit of a matured 

 designer, and is painted with a firm yet delicate touch. The dog and the cat eye each 

 other with anything but amicable feelings, as if disposed to contend for the body of 

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