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
John Landseer while he pursued an interest in archaeology, becoming a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and publishing two books on Babylonian antiquities, before returning to engraving. In 1826 he was appointed Engraver to the King, and in 1831 published a plate of "Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveller" after a picture painted by his son Edwin eleven years earlier, at the age of eighteen. Landseer died in London on 20 February 1852, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. He published two short-lived periodicals: "The Review of Publications in Art" in 1808, and "The Probe", set up in opposition to the