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 Mitchell (engraver) other engravers. Robert Mitchell (engraver) Robert Mitchell (19 May 1820 – 16 May 1873) was an English engraver, son of the engraver James Mitchell. He died at Bromley, Kent. Mitchell engraved in mezzotint "Tapageur, a fashionable Member of the Canine Society", after Sir Edwin Landseer (1852) and "The Parish Beauty" (1853) and "The Pastor's Pet", a pair after Alfred Rankley (1854). In the mixed style he engraved "The Happy Mothers" and "The Startled Twins", a pair after Richard Ansdell, R.A. (1850), and "Christ walking on the Sea", after Robert Scott Lauder (1854). Several of his etched plates were completed in