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
Henry Moses (engraver) Henry Moses (engraver) Henry Moses (1782?–1870) was an English engraver. He died at Cowley, Middlesex, 28 February 1870. Moses was one of the engravers employed on the official publication "Ancient Marbles in the British Museum", 1812-1845. Other works included: Moses contributed many of the illustrations to James Hakewill's "Tour of Italy", 1820, and "Woburn Abbey Marbles", 1822. He etched from his own designs "Picturesque Views of Ramsgate", 23 plates, 1817; "Sketches of Shipping" and "Marine Sketch Book", 1824 (reissued by Ackermann, 1837); and "Visit of William IV, when Duke of Clarence, to Portsmouth in 1827", 17 plates, 1830. Moses's final