Thomas Landseer

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Thomas Landseer (around 1860)

Thomas Landseer (1793 or 1794 in London - January 20, 1880 there ) was an English engraver , etcher and illustrator. The animal painter Edwin Landseer was his younger brother, to whose success he contributed with graphic editions.

Life

Thomas Landseer was born in London in 1794, the oldest of 14 children. His father was the engraver and engraver John Landseer (1769-1852). A total of seven siblings survived into adulthood, five became artists. Thomas's two younger brothers, Charles (1799–1879) and Edwin , (1802–1873) became painters and members of the Royal Academy , while the sisters Jessica (1810–1880) and Emma (1809–1895) were painters and engravers. Like his father John, Thomas became deaf during his life.

Like his siblings, Thomas first learned the artistic techniques from his father. He then studied with the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon , together with his brother Charles and the painter William Bewick (1795–1866).

Thomas Landseer: Doubtful Crumbs . Engraving after Edwin Henry Landseer, 1862, 74 × 81.7 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York

At the age of 14 Thomas Landseer had started etching by copying the fraternal drawings in gravure. Later he regularly made his brother Edwin's animal paintings as etchings . In particular, the soft mezzotint prints of popular depictions of animals, such as Edwin Landseer's Dignity and Impudence (1839, printed: 1841) and The Monarch of the Glen (around 1850, printed 1851), sold excellently as prints, secured income and carried not insignificantly to the fame of brother Edwin.

Between 1853 and 1877 he exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1867 he was elected a member of the Academy . His son George (1834–1878) became known as a portrait and landscape painter, especially for Indian subjects.

Thomas Landseer died on January 20, 1880 in St. John's Wood, London. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery.

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From: Monkey-Ana or Men in Miniature

In addition to the successful collaboration with his brother Edwin, Thomas Landseer also created his own cycles and illustrations.

In 1827 he published a series of prints under the title Monkey-Ana or Men in Miniature , a social satire in the form of anthropomorphic monkey figures. Around 1830/31 he illustrated Samuel Taylor Coleridge's work The Devil's Walk in a series of etchings. A series of zoological depictions of animals with descriptions by John Henry Barrow appeared as Characteristic Sketches of Animals in 1832 .

Landseer published a biography of his former colleague and fellow student Bewick in 1871 under the title The Life and Letters of William Bewick.

literature

Web links

Commons : Thomas Landseer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Alexander Manson (1851-1921): Sir Edwin Landseer, RA London 1902; Pp. 16-20
  2. ↑ Monkhouse (1885/1900), p. 70
  3. ^ Edwin Landseer: Dignity and Impudence , 1839
  4. ↑ Thomas Landseer: Dignity and Impudence ; Engraving 1841
  5. ^ Edwin Landseer: The Monarch of the Glen , around 1850
  6. ↑ Thomas Landseer: The Monarch of the Glen , 1851
  7. ↑ Monkhouse (1885/1900), p. 70
  8. ↑ Landseer, Thomas . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 108 .
  9. ^ Biographical note ; see also entry National Portrait Gallery
  10. ^ The British Museum , Collection online: Monkey-Ana or Men, in Miniature
  11. ^ The British Museum , Collection online: Ten etchings illustrative of The Devil's Walk
  12. ^ New York Public Library , Digital Collections: Characteristic sketches of animals, principally from the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park ; Digitized version (google books)
  13. ^ Digitized from the Harvard University Library (1874 edition)
personal data
SURNAME Landseer, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English engraver, eraser and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1793 or 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1880
Place of death London