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
John Gilbert (painter) exhibited at the various societies. In 1872 he was knighted. He became an RA in 1876, in the same year as Edward Poynter. The "Gilbert-Garret Competition for Sketching Clubs" was started in 1870 at St. Martins School of Art, and named after its first president, John Gilbert. Gilbert is buried at Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries. Gilbert illustrated: Gilbert has nearly sixty oil paintings in British national collections. John Gilbert (painter) Sir John Gilbert (21 July 1817 – 5 October 1897) was an English artist, illustrator and engraver. Gilbert was born in Blackheath, Surrey, and taught himself to paint. His only