68 S/Ji EDWIN LANDSEER, R.A. 



The career of Sir Edwin Landseer has thus been traced, mainly through his 

 principal exhibited works, from its outset to its close ; but the list, long as it is, by no 

 means includes the whole of his life's labours. There must be a large number of his 

 pictures which have passed direct from the studio of the artist Into the hands of their 

 respective owners. Her Majesty possesses several, independent of those already 

 pointed out; among them, notably, is one entitled "Windsor Castle in the Present 

 Time," painted, I believe, about 1844, and engraved by T. L. Atkinson. It is an 

 interior view, and shows the late Prince Consort, in sportsman's dress, seated in an 

 apartment of the castle, with a quantity of dead game on the floor, which attracts the 

 attention of the Queen and of two or three of the royal children — then very young. 

 This is, certainly, one of the most pleasing pictures of these exalted personages, en 

 famille, Landseer painted, Another work in the royal collection at Osborne, where the 

 majority of the modern pictures are hung, is " A Highland Lassie." 



, In the possession of private collectors may be mentioned, among others, " Bringing 

 Home the Deer," and " Bull-dogs worrying a Pig," at Burwood, the seat of. Mr. J. 

 Walter, M.P. ; " Highland Game," and " A Deerhound," in the collection of Mr. T. 

 Miller, Preston — the first of these was formerly in the possession of the late Duchess of 

 Bedford ; " The Vigilant Sentinel," " Rat-catching," and " Waiting for the Countess," 

 belong to Mr. Chapman, of Mottram, in Cheshire; " Intruding Puppies" is in the 

 collection of Mr. S. Mendel, Manchester; " Dog with a Wild Duck," in the Grosvenor 

 Gallery; "Dead Game," and "Cat surprised by a Dog," in the possession of the 

 family of Sir Charles Coote; Mr. J. Chapman, Manchester, has "Dog watching 

 Packages — Post-horses in the Distance," signed and dated 1821 ; consequently painted 

 when the artist was in his nineteenth year. Waugen says of this work, "The 

 truth, extraordinary power, and careful execution in a good impasto, show how early 

 the powers of this painter were developed." In the same collection are a "Portrait 

 of a Dog, looking up"— of wonderful truth; and " Three Dogs watching a Ferret," 

 which is unearthing a rabbit—" of the most delicate observation of nature, especially 

 the white dog, and of masterly carrying out in a very clear and forcible tone." 



Besides the pictures already referred to as being the property of the nation, there 

 are at South Kensington, "The Dog and the Shadow," exhibited at the British 

 Institution, in 1826; " Sancho Panza and Dapple," the latter about to eat a crust his 

 masters offers him, dated 1824; " The Angler's Guard," a large brown Newfoundland 

 dog and a white Italian greyhound, watching their master's fish-basket, &c., exhibited 

 at the British Institution in 1824 ; " Comical Dogs," two wiry-haired terriers, life size, 



seated side by side, one wearing a Scotch bonnet, the other a woman's cap the latter 



dog has a short pipe in his mouth ; exhibited at the British Institution in 1836. 



