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
Robert Graves (engraver) Wilkie, Edwin Landseer, William Mulready, and others. He also worked for the "Literary Souvenir", "Iris", "Amulet", "Forget-Me-Not", and "Keepsake Français" on plates, after Murillo, Wilkie, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Simon Jacques Rochard, and other painters. After his election A.R.A., works which Graves sent to the exhibitions of the Royal Academy included: Graves also exhibited plates engraved for the "Art Journal", including: His last finished plate was a portrait of Charles Dickens, after William Powell Frith, for John Forster's "Life" of the novelist. He left unfinished a plate after Gainsborough's portrait of "Lady Bowater", which was completed by James Stephenson. Graves's son