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
Albert Henry Landseer "Bourke", "Despatch", "Eliza", "Gertrude" and "Industry". He was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the district of Mount Barker in 1875, partnered with W. A. E. West Erskine, who was succeeded in May 1876, by J. G. Ramsay. Other partners in his long parliamentary career were successively F. W. Stokes, Sir J. L. Stirling, M.L.C., Dr. (later Sir) John Cockburn and C. M. R. Dumas. He retired from the Assembly in 1898, at that time a record for continuous membership of the Assembly. Landseer married twice: to Rosina Masson (ca.1830 – 29 April 1871) on 4 November 1856, and Harriet