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In total Thomas copied over 125 of Edwin's works. He would go on to dedicate much of his career to engraving his brother's most famous paintings. Thomas collaborated with Edwin from childhood, as the younger brother preferred drawing and painting. THOMAS LANDSEER (1795-1880), EdwinвЂ™s eldest brother, wasВ a talented engraver. The reproductive print witnessed its golden age, in terms of quantity, between 18.В (4) For example, in 1845 Thomas Agnew and Sons sold first class proofs for ВЈ10.10s, second class proofs for ВЈ7.7s, and 'Common Prints' at ВЈ4.4s. There were several price ranges for the different states of the print. (3)ДЄdding to EdwinвЂ™s fame were the engraved etchings made of his paintings and sold to the public by a print publisher who owned the rights to the image. This image may have more in common with our current activist efforts than we recognize at first glance'. As is the case today, those wanting to change the world for animals relied heavily on visual imagery, and LandseerвЂ™s work was especially popular in this context. However, it is important to take another look at this painting, to remember the place this image held in the minds of those involved with early animal advocacy campaigns. As the V&A gallery label indicates, this image is often read as an example of Victorian sentimentality, a throwback to вЂњolden daysвЂќ when life was somehow different from ours. This painting, and indeed most of LandseerвЂ™s other paintings are not taken that seriously by art historians and critics today. (2) Keri Cronin sums up todayвЂ™s attitude to EdwinвЂ™s works when she writes, 'Looking at The Old ShepherdвЂ™s Chief Mourner I feel strongly connected to the reformers and advocates from previous generations who understood the impact that art and visual culture could have in the very complex discussions about the ways in which non-human animals should be treated in our society, people who have paved the way for activists today.

This aptlyВ sums up how his art was perceived at the time.

(1)Д®stelle Hurll (1863вЂ“1924)В wrote in her biography of Edwin Landseer, 'He looked upon most animals with the eyes of the artist, the poet and natural historian, but the dog alone he painted as a friend'. They were the first of those canine burlesques of human life to which he owed much of his popularity. In 1833 this vein of humour was developed in his Jack in Office (South Kensington Museum).

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In 1831 he was elected to the full honours of the Academy andВ exhibitedВ the two small but celebrated pictures, High Life and Low LifeВ at the British Institution (now in theВ National Gallery), in which he contrasted opposite classes of society as reflected in their dogs - the aristocratic deerhound and the butcher's mongrel. The same year he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy atВ twenty-four this wasВ the earliest age permitted by the rules. In 1826 Landseer exhibited a large picture of The Chase - now the property of the Duke of Bedford - at the Royal Academy. There are some very accomplished nature drawings, completed when he was five, in the Victoria and Albert Museum (previously the South Kensington Museum) and other Galleries. In 1813, at the age of eleven, he was awarded the silver palette of the Society of Arts for his drawing of animals. Edwin was a child prodigy, in that his drawing and observational skills were highly developed at a young age. SIR EDWIN HENRY LANDSEER (1802вЂ“1878), animal-painter, third and youngest son of John Landseer, was born at 33 Foley Street (then 71 Queen Anne Street East), London on 7 March 1802.

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