F THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN
LANDSEER'S LIFE xii

V. SOME OF LANDSEER'S CONTEMPORARIES xiii

I. KING CHARLES SPANIELS 1
Picture from Photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl

II. SHOEING 7
Picture from Photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl

III. SUSPENSE 13
Picture from Photograph of the original Painting

IV. THE MONARCH OF THE GLEN 19
Picture from Engraving by Thomas Landseer

V. THE TWA DOGS 25
Picture from Photograph of the original Painting

VI. DIGNITY AND IMPUDENCE 31
Picture from Photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl

VII. PEACE 37
Picture from Photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl

VIII. WAR 43
Picture from Photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl

IX. A DISTINGUISHED MEMBER OF THE HUMANE SOCIETY 49
Picture from Photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl

X. A NAUGHTY CHILD 55
Picture from Photograph of the original Painting

XI. THE SLEEPING BLOODHOUND 61
Picture from Photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl

XII. THE HUNTED STAG 67
Picture from Photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl

XIII. JACK IN OFFICE 73
Picture from Photograph of the original Painting

XIV. THE HIGHLAND SHEPHERD'S CHIEF MOURNER 79
Picture from Photograph of the original Painting

XV. A LION OF THE NELSON MONUMENT 85
Picture from Photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl

XVI. THE CONNOISSEURS 91

INTRODUCTION

I. ON LANDSEER'S CHARACTER AS AN ARTIST.

If the popularity of a painter were the measure of his artistic
greatness, Sir Edwin Landseer's would be among the foremost of the
world's great names. At the height of his career probably no other
living painter was so familiar and so well bel