AFTER SIR EDWIN LANDSEER (British, 1802-1873) LOW LIFE ANTIQUE OIL PAINTING DOG For Sale -
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AFTER SIR EDWIN LANDSEER (British, 1802-1873) LOW LIFE ANTIQUE OIL PAINTING DOG :
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AFTER SIR EDWIN LANDSEER (British, 1802-1873) \"LOW LIFE\" 19th CENTURY ANTIQUE OIL PAINTING DOGWonderful Fine Antique Oil Painting After Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873) \"Low Life\" (original 1829), 19th century portrait of a dog, oil on canvas, of fine quality and detail, unsigned. Canvas size 14\" x 18\", Framed size 8 1/2\" x 22 1/2\". Housed in a fine wide molded wood frame. Very old painting, original old antique frame partially shown from back with framing paper lifted off. This is Not a modern reproduction. Please see photos for more accurate description, there is crazing from age, otherwise in very good condition, no rips or tears, could benefit from a cleaning.Original Landseer Low Life Painting is at the TATE GALLERY, England. Landseer\'s dog paintings of the 1830s are among his most popular works. About half consist of commissioned, life-size \'portraits\', the rest are independent subjects, smaller in scale and usually with a narrative content. In an etching of 1822, which anticipates Low Life, the dog in this picture is identified as Jack. He belongs to the tradition of Landseer\'s early, unruly tykes, an element which gradually disappeared in his work. The same dog reappears in A Jack in Office (c.1833, Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
This particular work was conceived as a pair with High Life (Tate A00703), depicting a faithful deerhound, symbol of an aristocratic and chivalric past. The intention was to juxtapose two dogs from different worlds and different social classes as representations of their absent owners. There is a long literary and pictorial tradition behind such contrasts - virtue and vice, good and evil - which usually have some kind of moral purpose. Here the contrast is more one of character than of morality.Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, RA (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter, well known for his paintings of animals—particularly horses, dogs and stags. The best known of Landseer\'s works, however, are sculptures: the lions in Trafalgar Square, London. Landseer was born in London, the son of the engraver John Landseer A.R.A...[1] He was something of a prodigy whose artistic talents were recognised early on. He studied under several artists, including his father, and the history painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, who encouraged the young Landseer to perform dissections in order to fully understand animal musculature and skeletal structure. Landseer\'s life was entwined with the Royal Academy. At the age of just 13, in 1815, he exhibited works there. He was elected an Associate at the age of 24, and an Academician five years later in 1831. He was knighted in 1850, and although elected President in 1866 he declined the invitation.
In his late 30s Landseer suffered what is now believed to be a substantial nervous breakdown, and for the rest of his life was troubled by recurring bouts of melancholy, hypochondria, and depression, often aggravated by alcohol and drug use.[2] In the last few years of his life Landseer\'s mental stability was problematic, and at the request of his family he was declared insane in July 1872.
This particular work was conceived as a pair with High Life (Tate A00703), depicting a faithful deerhound, symbol of an aristocratic and chivalric past. The intention was to juxtapose two dogs from different worlds and different social classes as representations of their absent owners. There is a long literary and pictorial tradition behind such contrasts - virtue and vice, good and evil - which usually have some kind of moral purpose. Here the contrast is more one of character than of morality.Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, RA (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter, well known for his paintings of animals—particularly horses, dogs and stags. The best known of Landseer\'s works, however, are sculptures: the lions in Trafalgar Square, London. Landseer was born in London, the son of the engraver John Landseer A.R.A...[1] He was something of a prodigy whose artistic talents were recognised early on. He studied under several artists, including his father, and the history painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, who encouraged the young Landseer to perform dissections in order to fully understand animal musculature and skeletal structure. Landseer\'s life was entwined with the Royal Academy. At the age of just 13, in 1815, he exhibited works there. He was elected an Associate at the age of 24, and an Academician five years later in 1831. He was knighted in 1850, and although elected President in 1866 he declined the invitation.
In his late 30s Landseer suffered what is now believed to be a substantial nervous breakdown, and for the rest of his life was troubled by recurring bouts of melancholy, hypochondria, and depression, often aggravated by alcohol and drug use.[2] In the last few years of his life Landseer\'s mental stability was problematic, and at the request of his family he was declared insane in July 1872.
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