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 5, 1826. Genre painter, pupil of Regnault; won the grand prix in 1792, and studied in Rome for five years; was a better colourist than draughtsman. He was painter to the Duc de Berri, corresponding member of the Institute, custodian of the Louvre Gallery, and knight of the L. of Honour. Published "Annales du Musée" (29 vols., 1801-17), "Vies et Œuvres des Peintres les plus Célèbres" (22 vols., 1803-17), and other works. Works: Eleazer refusing to eat Forbidden Meat (1792); Mother's Lesson, Pastoral (1800); Virginia Bathing (1801); Leda with Castor and Pollux (1806), Louvre; Venus and Cupid (1810); Paul and Virginia (1812); Dædalus and Icarus.—Bellier, i. 896; Biogr. univ., Supplement; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Larousse.

LANDSEER, CHARLES, born in 1799, died in London, July 22, 1879. History painter, son and pupil of John Landseer, engraver (1769-1852), and elder brother of Sir Edwin Henry Landseer; student also with Haydon and in schools of Royal Academy; exhibited at Royal Academy his Dorothea in 1828; became A.R.A. in 1837 and R.A. in 1845, and keeper in 1851. Works: Clarissa Harlowe in the Sponging-House (1833), Bloodhound Bitch and Pups, Pillaging a Jew's House in Reign of Richard I., Sacking of Basing House, National Gallery; Cromwell at Naseby, 1645, National Gallery, Berlin; Eve of Battle of Edgehill (1845).—Cat. Nat. Gal. and Royal Acad.; Sandby, ii. 176.

LANDSEER, Sir EDWIN HENRY, born in London, March 7, 1802, died there, Oct. 1, 1873. Animal painter, third son and pupil of John Landseer, engraver; began to draw animals when very young, some of his sketches, made when five, seven, and ten years old, being preserved at South Kensington. When fourteen he became a student of the Royal Academy, and exhibited the next year Heads of a Pointer Bitch and Puppy. He soon won an unrivalled reputation as an animal painter, and became A.R.A. in 1826 and R.A. in 1830. In 1850 he was knighted, and in 1855 received at the French Exhibition the large gold medal, and in 1873 the medal at the Vienna Exhibition. Works: Dogs Fighting (1819); St. Gothard Dogs finding Traveller in Snow (1820); Two Dogs, Dog and the Shadow (1822); Sancho Panza and Dapple (1824); Highland Breakfast, Suspense (1834), Drover's Departure (1835), Jack in Office (1833), Comical Dogs, Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner (1837), and others, South Kensington Museum; Cat's Paw (1824); Chevy-Chace (1826), Duke of Bedford; Return from Deer-Stalking (1827), Windsor Castle; Monkey who had seen the World (1828); Illicit Whiskey-Still (1829), Highland Music (1830), Low Life, High Life (1831), Hunted Stag (1833), Sleeping Bloodhound (1835), Dignity and Impudence (1839), Defeat of Comus (1843), Shoeing (1844), King Charles Spaniels (1845), Peace (1846), War (1846), Alexander and Diogenes (1848), Dialogue at Waterloo (1850), Maid and Magpie (1858), National Gallery, London; Poachers Deer-Stalking (1831), Hermon sale (1882), £840; Sir Walter Scott and his Dogs (1833); Bolton Abbey in Olden Time (1834); Return from Hawking (1837); Life's in the Old Dog yet (1838); Van Amburgh (1839); Laying down the Law (1840); Otter and Salmon (1842); Otter Speared (1844); Shepherd's Prayer (1845); Monarch of the Glen, Titania and Bottom (1851); Children of the Mist (1853); Rough and Ready, Uncle Tom and Wife, Braemar (1857), C. F. H. Bolckow; Deer-Stalking (1858); Doubtful Crumbs