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
James Stephenson (engraver) Martin; "The Highland Whiskey Still", the "Taming of the Shrew", and "The Queen at Osborne", after Edwin Landseer; "Ophelia", after John Everett Millais; and the "Portrait of Lord Tennyson", after George Frederick Watts. He also engraved pictures by Daniel Maclise, Gilbert Stuart Newton, Thomas Faed, and Sir John Watson Gordon. James Stephenson (engraver) James Stephenson (1808–1886) was an English engraver. Born at Manchester on 26 November 1808, he was the son of Thomas Stephenson, boot and shoe maker, of Stable Street there, near Oldham Street. He was educated at a school kept by Thomas Rain, adjoining Oldham Street chapel, and