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Read Ebook: Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation by Hurll Estelle M Estelle May
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Our portrait shows him at the age of sixty-two, when his beard was white. His face is attractive because of the kindly expression, but it is by no means handsome. The redeeming feature is the high broad forehead, the sign of the fine poetic temperament of which so many of his works are proof.
It was characteristic of Landseer to paint his portrait with his dogs. Neither the man nor his art can be separated from the animal to which he devoted his best gifts. The dogs give the title to the picture, and with the genial humor natural to the painter, he represents himself as the subject of their criticism. Holding his sketch-book across his knees, he appears to be making a pencil study of some dog subject, while over each shoulder peers the grave face of a canine "Connoisseur." The dog at the painter's right seems to express approval, while his more critical comrade on the other side reserves judgment till the picture is completed.
It would appear that Landseer's dog pictures were faithful enough to satisfy the judgment of the originals. "We cannot help believing," writes an admiring critic, "that the manner in which Landseer drew the forms and expressed the character of the canine race would have been rewarded with the gratitude, if not the full satisfaction of such a critic.... On the whole, seeing that he was but a man must, we fancy, have allowed that he was a good artist, a fair judge of character, and meant kindly by them."
The honors bestowed upon Landseer culminated at the time of his death in the magnificent funeral ceremonies attending his burial at St. Paul's Church, London. His body was laid near those of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Turner, Fuseli, and other famous English painters. In the memorial sermon following the funeral, the painter's character was fittingly summed up in a few lines from Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner."
"He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast,
"He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small, For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all."
The Riverside Press
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BRYANT. HAWTHORNE. O'REILLY. EMERSON. HOLMES. THOREAU. EVERETT. IRVING. WEBSTER. FRANKLIN. LONGFELLOW. WHITTIER. LOWELL.
ADDISON. COLERIDGE. MACAULAY. BACON. COWPER. MILTON. BROWN. DICKENS. RUSKIN. BURNS. GOLDSMITH. TENNYSON. BYRON. GRAY. WORDSWORTH. LAMB.
BRYANT. HOLMES. LOWELL. EMERSON. LONGFELLOW. STOWE. HAWTHORNE. WHITTIER.
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