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Afterwards, in her private entourage, the Queen would observe that the person in question was, she very much feared, "not discreet"; it was a verdict from which there was no appeal. In general, her aesthetic tastes had remained unchanged since the days of Mendelssohn, Landseer, and Lablache.
I could not help asking Sir Robert to allow me to tell him the sequel to this incident a little anecdote related to me by the late Mr. Henry Graves, the famous print-seller, of Pall Mall, who probably knew Landseer better than any other man.
There are nine portraits of Sir Edwin Landseer in existence one by J. Hayter when Landseer was thirteen years old and is represented as a cricketer; one painted a year later by Leslie, in which Edwin Landseer is the Rutland in the work called "Henry VI." It is owned by the Philadelphia Academy.
Here are pictures by Sir Frederick Leighton, Landseer, and others; stuffed birds and fishes and animals from every clime, with flowers in profusion. In the dining-room, with its gray walls and red furniture, is a large painting of the mistress of this superb home, with her favorite horse and dogs.
Suppose I paint you a small one from the same subject, of which I will make you a present. Of course I accepted the gift, and thus it happened that the large work went travelling over the kingdom on exhibition, while Thomas Landseer was making an engraving from the quarter-size replica. Stewart paid a much larger price for it on the breaking up of Mr. Wright's gallery.
By such means though it is to be hoped not always with such lamentable results Rubens succeeded in seizing and portraying the peculiar character and instinct of animals their quick movements and manifestations of strength with such perfect truth and energy that not one among the modern painters has approached him in this respect certainly not Landseer, as Mrs Jameson would ask us to believe.
In the stories of "Famous Artists" we are told that he was a fine, manly little chap with light curly hair and very well behaved. When he became a student of the Academy the keeper, Fuseli, used to look about among the students and cry: "Where is my little dog boy?" if Landseer was not in his place.
Landseer. One cannot see it without longing to contemplate the artist. Frederick William. Send me the entire edition together with the plate and the original portrait and name your own price. And would you like to come over and stay awhile with Napoleon at Wilhelmshohe? It shall not cost you a cent. William III.
Landseer then took the house, his friend paying down the premium, and Landseer returned the money twenty-pounds at a time, till all the debt was paid. Landseer made this a famous and hospitable house, and it is said that more great people gathered under his roof than had ever gathered about any other artist with the exception of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
She imparted the information to Amy, who was astounded. Then she commenced upon her domestic preparations. She wrapped Samuel's Family Bible in brown paper; she put Cyril's straw-framed copy of Sir Edwin Landseer away in a drawer, and she took ten thousand other precautions. It was grotesque; it was farcical; it was what you please.
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