Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, R.A. (1802-1873)

Lions at a Kill

細節

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, R.A. (1802-1873)
Lions at a Kill
oil on canvas
13¾ x 17½ in. (34.9 x 44.4 cm.)

來源

Joseph Fenton, Bamford Hall, Rochdale; Christie's, 5 May 1879, lot 173 (44 gns. to Hooper).
Thomas Corns.
His daughter, Mary, wife of William, 1st Viscount Camrose, and by descent.

展覽

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of the Works of Sir E. Landseer, 1874, no. 271.
London, Royal Academy, Landseer Exhibition, 1961, no. 3.
Sheffield, City Art Gallery, Landseer and his World, 6 Feb.-12 March 1972, no. 4.
Philadelphia, Museum of Art, and London, Tate Gallery, Sir Edwin Landseer, 1981-82, no. 11.

拍品專文

Although it is difficult to date precisely, this work was probably painted in c. 1818, around the time that Landseer was drawing the lions, a subject that particularly interested him, at the menageries of the Exeter 'Change and the Tower of London. Landseer's interest in these wild animals manifested itself through his life; in 1815, as a student, he borrowed drawings of a dissected lion from B.R. Haydon; his fascination is seen in the assistance provided to his brother, Thomas, for his Twenty Engravings of Lions, Tigers, Panthers and Leopards ..., published by 1823, and, at the end of his career, the celebrated bronze lions at the base of Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square. The present work therefore provides an insight into the interests and workings of the precocious young artist, either towards the end of, or shortly after his years at the Royal Academy schools.