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 Albert Henry Landseer Albert Henry Landseer (10 February 1829 – 27 August 1906) was a businessman and politician in the early days of the colony of South Australia. He is also remembered as a pioneer of the River Murray steamboat trade. Landseer was born in London in 1829 the only son of Henry Landseer, and his wife Lucy. He was a cousin of the great animal painter Sir Edwin Landseer. He studied sculpture under one Johnson, but abandoned art and migrated to South Australia in 1848. He worked as a contractor for a time but joined the gold rush to