The Monarch of the Glen (painting) favourite of Queen Victoria, and had become famous for his paintings and drawings of animals. His later works include the sculptures of the lions at the foot of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. From the 1840s, he produced a series of intricately observed studies of stags based on those he had seen on the trips he had been making to the Scottish Highlands since 1824. In 1850, Landseer received a national commission to paint three subjects connected with the chase for the Refreshment Rooms of the House of Lords, for which he produced "Monarch of the Glen" and two other
William Byrne (engraver) William Byrne (engraver) William Byrne (1743–1805) was an English engraver. Byrne was born in London in 1743. After studying some time under his uncle, an artist little known, he went to Paris, where he became a pupil of Aliamet, and afterwards of Wille. As well as making individual plates, he worked with Thomas Hearne on the "Antiquities of Great Britain", which they jointly published in 1786. He died in London in 1805, and was buried in Old St. Pancras churchyard. He was the father of painters John Byrne and his second daughter Mary Green. Landscape engraver John Landseer was his