Sir Edwin Landseer
1802–1873 · Romanticismo y paisaje
Biografía
Sir Edwin Landseer (1802–1873) fue el pintor de animales más famoso de la Inglaterra victoriana y uno de los favoritos de la reina Victoria. También esculpió los leones de Trafalgar Square, en Londres.
Episodios de su vida
In the mid-19th century Landseer earned some £6,000 a year, more than the income of an average English country gentleman of the time. Much of Landseer’s fortune came from engravings of his best-known works. The copyright of 625 engravings of one of Landseer’s most famous pictures, The Monarch of the Glen (pictured), for example, brought him £540, while he was able to sell the original painting for only £95.
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