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 Eaton, 1st Baron Cheylesmore and park, then just outside [[Coventry]], now a Grade II* [[listed building]] used as a [[Registry office]] in the suburb built on the historic park. Cheylesmore was a significant art collector, mainly of contemporary British painting. The star of his collection, and his posthumous sale at [[Christie's]] in May 1892 (lot numbers and prices realized noted), was undoubtedly [[Monarch of the Glen (painting)|"The Monarch of the Glen"]] (lot 42, £7,245) by Sir [[Edwin Landseer]], one of the most popular paintings of the age. Altogether 31 of the 86 lots were by Landseer, many bought at his studio sale in 1874.