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
Jessica Landseer also etched plates after her brother Edwin—"Vixen", a Scottish terrier (also engraved by her brother Thomas Landseer); and "Lady Louisa Russell feeding a Donkey" (1826). It was at the Society of Female Artists, almost exclusively, that Jessica Landseer exhibited after 1863. Her brother, whom she had nursed, died in 1873, leaving her a substantial legacy, and she moved to Kensington Park Gardens, with a carriage. Jessica Landseer did not marry. She died at Folkestone on 29 August 1880. She left money to animal charities. Jessica Landseer Jessica Landseer (1810–1880) was an English landscape and miniature painter. She exhibited from 1816