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 reaper in "The Gleaners", painted for Macklin by Sir Joshua Reynolds . They had fourteen children: seven survived to reach adolescence, and four of them Thomas, Edwin, Charles and Jessica, became notable in the art world. John Landseer John Landseer ARA (1769 – 20 February 1852) was an English landscape engraver. Landseer was born in Lincoln in 1769, according to Cosmo Monkhouse, or in London in 1761, according to his son Edwin's biographer, F.G. Stephens. However, according to the England and Wales Christening Index 1530-1980, he was born on 23 January 1765 and baptised on 3 February 1765 at Westminster.