Royal Sports, Sir Edwin Landseer
This engraving, based on the painting Royal Sports on Hill and Loch by Sir Edwin Landseer, shows the queen and her family enjoying the pleasures of outdoor life in Scotland in the 1850s.
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This engraving, based on the painting Royal Sports on Hill and Loch by Sir Edwin Landseer, shows the queen and her family enjoying the pleasures of outdoor life in Scotland in the 1850s.
Prince Albert helps Queen Victoria out of a fishing boat, while on the right young Prince Bertie (the future Edward VII) is shown a freshly caught salmon by the ghillie Archibald Frazer Macdonald. Landseer, who specialised in animals, was one of Victoria's favourite artists and she knighted him at about the time the original painting was created. Capitalising on the popularity of Scottish Romanticism, he painted many other Highland subjects, notably The Monarch of the Glen.
Where to go?
The Royal Collection
The Royal Collection covers all the artworks owned by the British monarch. They are held at royal palaces and residences, including Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Holyrood Palace, and at the Queen's Galleries in London, and some 3,000 are on long-term loan to museums and galleries in the UK and abroad.
Website: www.royalcollection.org.uk
The Royal Collection
The Royal Collection covers all the artworks owned by the British monarch. They are held at royal palaces and residences, including Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Holyrood Palace, and at the Queen's Galleries in London, and some 3,000 are on long-term loan to museums and galleries in the UK and abroad.
Website: www.royalcollection.org.uk
What to see?
The Royal Collection holds 27 paintings by Sir Edwin Landseer, including Queen Victoria on horseback (c. 1838), Windsor Castle in modern times (1841–45) and various portraits of Victoria and Albert's children.
Website: www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/maker.asp?
maker=LANDSEER – view all the Landseer paintings held by the Royal Collection
Email: Surveyor of the Queen's Picture – you can email the Surveyor of the Queen's Picture to find out where a particular painting is hanging.
The Royal Collection holds 27 paintings by Sir Edwin Landseer, including Queen Victoria on horseback (c. 1838), Windsor Castle in modern times (1841–45) and various portraits of Victoria and Albert's children.
Website: www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/maker.asp?
maker=LANDSEER – view all the Landseer paintings held by the Royal Collection
Email: Surveyor of the Queen's Picture – you can email the Surveyor of the Queen's Picture to find out where a particular painting is hanging.
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