The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-16

upon art. His brother was an X. A,
and for many years was keeper Of the
Royal academy. His brother was one
Of the most eminent engravers England
has ever had. An uncle of his, for
whom he was named, was also an
artist of considerable reputation. And
other members Of his family were
artists. His mother was a beautiful
woman and in her maiden days had
sat as a subject for Sir Joshua Reyn-
olds in some of his aliegOrical pictures.
When Lands5eT was a youth facili-
ties for the study of art were few.
LandseeT, however, needed such facll-
ties but little His instinct and genius
for art were dominant and unmis'-
taxable from the first. Landseer was
perhaps as precocious an artist as ever
lived. When scarcely more than an
infant he drew animals from life. At
5 years of age he drew animals from
life we'll At years of age he drew
them so well that his drawings were
engraved and etched. and are now
/ described in the catalogues Of his
works. At u years Of age he was an
exhibitor in the Royal academy, the
Youngest exhibitor that institution has
! ever had. At IS years of age he drew
uictures which even his maturest
! powers scarcely surpassed. one OF
! these pictures. a dog. "Old Brutus. IL
was called, in 1874 sold for $50 (S3,15o).
At f6 years of age a work OF his was
/ sold so we'll and to such an eminent
| connoisseur Of the time that at once
[ he became famous. His paintings ex-
1 hibited in that year (1SlS) were crltl-
/ caIly examined by the most eminent
i artists of the day and critically des-
I cribed by the most eminent art writers.
~ Il fashion. almost Tng
rage. At p he was awarded a premium
Z of ESQ (ST5O by the British Institution
for the ENCOURAGEMENT Of Artists. At
a he was an a r. A. and at y an
r. a., the very earliest dates, we be
lieve. that he could be admitted "a
| these honors-
Landseers astonishing success was
not due to instinct and genius alone
In his early years especially he was
such a conscientious and palnstaAllhs
student as few artists have been his
one. great source Of instruction was ma
ture. His studio was the open felds
the paddocks. the parks, the stables
/ the courtyards, where horses, cattle
sheen. donkeys, dogs and other ami
mails were best to be found he falth-
fully modelled upon and copied nature
in everything he did. Every pose ne
gave to an animal every expression
of passion or of action. every detaii OF
hide and fur, of skin, hair and wool
OF eyes and teeth, of hoof and claw
was carefully studied from the Ire
Acting upon the suggestion of tht
artist Hayden, he also studied anatomy
and dissected. Acting also upon th'
auggestion and advice Of Hayden, n'
made a special study Of the Ei5ir
marbles, those wonderful relics OF M
scuIptured life of Greece when III
great Phidias was in his prime. Land
seer thus became. with the exception
of Hogarth, the first English artist
outdoor life who based his art upol
fidelity to reality. And he realized thl'
fidelity by study at first hand A
Rusxin said: 1T was not by the studl
of Raphael that Landseer attained M
eminent success. but By a healthy low
4 Scotch terriers"
Sir Edwin Landseers name Is so in
TINA teiys associated with the portral
ture of animals that it is scarceJ'
Il necessary to gay that he was the mos
eminent painter of animal lie ina
England has known. and one Of tn
most famous the whole world ma
known There are some reasons 10
this pre-eminence apart from IN
artists SURPRISING fidelity TO natufe
I,andseer. like Hogarth. was a humor
ist. Like Hogarth also he was story
teller. dramatist in art. His picture
almost ell. except his very carries
4 onea always had some sentiment i
, exnTess. some incident OF hunOr o
natbos 10 narrate Like BoSarth, too
but in a very minor degree, Landsee
was a satirist It thus happens ina
Landsssr's pictures appeal to tn
popular taste. The public can appre
eiate fhem apart from their merit q
works Of art. Ills dogs, his horses ~
deer, his sheep, mis- doDkeys, III
monReys, are almost human in thel
: dramatic characterization and ex
Dressiveness lie thus read into the