78 Sm EDWIN LAND SEER, R.A. 



another is also exhibited, " A Dialogue at Waterloo," which cost them ;^3,ooo to 

 secure the copyright of the picture. It may not unreasonably be inferred that 

 ;^ 100,000 have been expended, in various ways, upon the production of these engrav- 

 ings. Such an amount devoted by one firm to the works of one artist is, probably, 

 without a parallel. But there are other publishers who have also sent forth engravings 

 after this painter. As complete a list of these engravings as Messrs. Graves could 

 procure will be found in the Appendix to this volume. 



Landseer, it is reported, has left a very large property ; so large, if the information 

 which has reached me from good authority be correct, as will astonish the public if the 

 statement be verified. Whatever it may prove to be, however, there can be no doubt 

 that his wealth arose less from what he was paid for his pictures than from the specu- 

 lative enterprise of print-publishers, who, as a rule, considered no sum too large to 

 obtain the privilege of engraving a popular subject. And it is by the wide circulation 

 of these works that the fame of the painter has extended over the world; and it must 

 be by them, chiefly, that the knowledge of his genius will be transmitted to all future 

 generations. 



His "life's fitful fever" has passed away, but the results of that life remain with 

 us in scenes of joyousness or of sadness ; for we laugh at his " Monkey who had seen 

 the World" and his "Uncle Tom and his Wife," as we sigh over his "Shepherd's 

 Chief Mourner" and " The Random Shot." The great lesson he taught mankind in 

 the majority of his works is a noble one ; and it has had, as it should have, power to 

 inculcate kindness to the dumb animals, which have lost in him a warm and sympathetic 

 friend, and the skilful interpreter of their instincts and character; reading them by the 

 light of his own generous affection and close study of their habits and natures. In 

 this way Landseer has opened up a path in which alone other animal-painters can hope 

 to succeed at all, though they are not likely to attain the high point he reached. 



