Landseer: A Collection of 15 Pictures (Illustrated)
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A collection of 15 pictures (black and white) and a portrait of the painter, with introduction and interpretation by Estelle Hurll.According to Wikipedia: " Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, RA (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter, well known for his paintings of animals—particularly horses, dogs and stags. The best known of Landseer's works, however, are sculptures: the lions in Trafalgar Square, London... Estelle May Hurll (1863–1924), a student of aesthetics, wrote a series of popular aesthetic analyses of art in the early twentieth century.Hurll was born 25 July 1863 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, daughter of Charles W. and Sarah Hurll. She attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1882. From 1884 to 1891 she taught ethics at Wellesley. Hurll received her A.M. from Wellesley in 1892. In earning her degree, Hurll wrote Wellesley's first master's thesis in philosophy under Mary Whiton Calkins; her thesis was titled "The Fundamental Reality of the Aesthetic." After earning her degree, Hurll engaged in a short career writing introductions and interpretations of art, but these activities ceased before she married John Chambers Hurll on 29 June 1908."
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Landseer - Estelle M. Hurll
Fr. Hanfstaengl, photo. John Andrew & Son, Sc. THE CONNOISSEURS
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LANDSEER - A COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN PICTURES AND A PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER, WITH INTRODUCTION AND INTERPRETATION BY ESTELLE M. HURLL
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BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1901
Copyright, 1901, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
Published November, 1901.
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
I KING CHARLES SPANIELS
II SHOEING
III SUSPENSE
IV THE MONARCH OF THE GLEN
V THE TWA DOGS
VI DIGNITY AND IMPUDENCE
VII PEACE
VIII WAR
IX A DISTINGUISHED MEMBER OF THE HUMANE SOCIETY
X A NAUGHTY CHILD
XI THE SLEEPING BLOODHOUND
XII THE HUNTED STAG
XIII JACK IN OFFICE
XIV THE HIGHLAND SHEPHERD'S CHIEF MOURNER
XV A LION OF THE NELSON MONUMENT
XVI THE CONNOISSEURS
PREFACE
The wide popularity of Landseer has been chiefly due to the circulation of engravings after his works. This little book is, so far as I know, the first attempt to bring together a collection of his pictures made in the modern process of half tone, from photographs direct from the original paintings. It is hoped that they may give a fairly good idea of the range and character of his art.
ESTELLE M. HURLL.
New Bedford, Mass.
September, 1901.
INTRODUCTION
I. ON LANDSEER'S CHARACTER AS AN ARTIST.
If the popularity of a painter were the measure of his artistic greatness, Sir Edwin Landseer's would be among the foremost of the world's great names. At the height of his career probably no other living painter was so familiar and so well beloved throughout the English-speaking world. There were many homes in England and America where his pictures were cherished possessions.
While popular opinion is never a safe basis for a critical estimate, it must be founded on reasons worth considering. In the case of Landseer there is no doubt that a large element in his success was his choice of subjects. The hearts of the people are quickly won by subjects with which they are familiar in everyday life. A universal love for animals, and especially for domestic pets, prepared a cordial welcome for the painter of the deer and the dog. His pictures supplied a real want among the class of people who know and care nothing about art for art's sake.
The dramatic power with which Landseer handled his subjects was the deeper secret of his fame. He knew how to tell a story with a simple directness which has never been surpassed. With almost equal facility for humor and pathos, he alternated between such inimitable satire as the Jack in Office and such poignant tragedy as the Highland Shepherd's Chief Mourner. Before pictures like these, the keenest criticism must confirm the popular verdict. Poetic imagination is one of the most coveted of the artist's gifts, and Landseer's rich endowment commands universal admiration.
The artist who is a story teller finds it one of the most difficult tasks to keep within proper limits. He is under a constant temptation to emphasize his point too strongly, to exaggerate his meaning in order to make it plain. That Landseer never fell into such error none would dare to claim. In interpreting the emotions of dumb animals he sometimes overdrew, or seemed to overdraw, their resemblance to human beings. Only those who have observed animals as closely as he—and how few they are—are competent to decide in this matter. When one thoroughly considers the question, the wonder is less that he sometimes made mistakes, than that he made so few. As a sympathetic critic has said: Nothing short of the most exquisite perception of propriety on his part could have enabled him to give innumerable versions of the inner life of animals with so little of the exaggeration and fantasticalness which would have easily become repugnant to the common sense of Englishmen.
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[1] Henrietta Keddie (Sarah Tytler
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Among Landseer's technical qualities the critic has highest praise for his drawing. He was a born draughtsman, as we see in the astonishing productions of his boyhood. He was besides a painstaking and faithful student in the youthful years when the foundations of good work must be laid. Another valuable quality was his artistic discrimination, that which a certain critic has called the selective glance that discerns in a moment what are the lines of character and of life.
Seizing these, he transferred them to his canvas in the decisive strokes which reproduce not merely the body but the vitality of the subject.
His dexterity in texture-painting was remarkable. The glossy coat of the bay mare, the soft long hair of the