The Monarch of the Glen (painting) The Monarch of the Glen (painting) The Monarch of the Glen is an oil-on-canvas painting of a red deer stag completed in 1851 by the English painter Sir Edwin Landseer. It was commissioned as part of a series of three panels to hang in the Palace of Westminster in London. As one of the most popular paintings throughout the 19th century, it sold widely in reproductions in steel engraving, and was finally bought by companies to use in advertising. The painting had become something of a cliché by the mid-20th century, as "the ultimate biscuit tin image of Scotland: a
Monarch of the Glen (TV series) Lloyd Owen, Tom Baker, Alexander Morton, and Susan Hampshire. The series is loosely based on Sir Compton Mackenzie's "Highland Novels", which are set in the same location but in the 1930s and 1940s. The first book in that series is called "The Monarch of the Glen", which was a reference to the famous painting of the same name by Landseer. The series was created by Michael Chaplin and produced by Nick Pitt, Paddy Higson, Jeremy Gwilt, Stephen Garwood, and Rob Bullock. The show saw many directors, most notably Edward Bennett, Richard Signy, Rick Stroud, and Robert Knights; and many writers