Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) _ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHIES OF THE GREAT ARTISTS._ SIR EDWIN HENRY LANDSEER. ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHIES OF THE GREAT ARTISTS. _The following volumes, each illustrated with from 14 to 20 Engravings, are now ready, price 3s. 6d._ LEONARDO DA VINCI. By Dr. J. PAUL RICHTER. MICHELANGELO. By CHARLES CLEMENT. RAPHAEL. From J. D. PASSAVANT. By N. D’ANVERS. TITIAN. By RICHARD FORD HEATH, M.A., Oxford. TINTORETTO. By W. ROSCOE OSLER. From researches at Venice. HOLBEIN. From Dr. A. WOLTMANN. By JOSEPH CUNDALL. THE LITTLE MASTERS OF GERMANY.[1] By W. B. SCOTT. REMBRANDT. From CHARLES VOSMAER. By J. W. MOLLETT. RUBENS, By C. W. KETT, M.A., Oxford. VAN DYCK and HALS. By PERCY R. HEAD, Lincoln Coll., Oxford. FIGURE PAINTERS OF HOLLAND. By Lord RONALD GOWER, F.S.A. VERNET and DELAROCHE. By J. RUUTZ REES. HOGARTH. By AUSTIN DOBSON. REYNOLDS. By F. S. PULLING, M.A., Oxford. TURNER. By W. COSMO MONKHOUSE. LANDSEER. By FREDERICK G. STEPHENS. _The following volumes are in preparation_:-- FRA ANGELICO. By CATHERINE M. PHILLIMORE. FRA BARTOLOMMEO. By LEADER SCOTT. VELAZQUEZ. By EDWIN STOWE, M.A., Oxford. GAINSBOROUGH. By G. M. BROCK ARNOLD, M.A., Oxford. ALBRECHT DÜRER. By R. F. HEATH, M.A. GIOTTO. By HARRY QUILTER, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. [Illustration: _Deerhound’s Heads._] “_The whole world without Art would be one great wilderness._” SIR EDWIN LANDSEER BY FREDERICK G. STEPHENS, AUTHOR OF “MEMORIALS OF MULREADY,” ETC. [Illustration] LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON, CROWN BUILDINGS, FLEET STREET. 1880. (_All rights reserved._) TO HENRY WALLIS, PAINTER, THE THANK-OFFERING OF AN OLD FRIEND. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. The text of a former work on the early productions of Sir Edwin Landseer has been, for the second time, revised and extended by the author; and the subject has been continued to the death of the artist. The biographer’s aim is achieved if he has successfully shown the course of the artist’s studies, and their result in success of an extraordinary kind. _June, 1880._ CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.