
Sir Edwin Landseer RA, A horse in a stable, ca.1810-12.
Pencil on cream wove paper. 117 mm x 160 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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A horse in a stable, ca.1810-12
Sir Edwin Landseer RA (1802 - 1873)
RA Collection: Art
The young Edwin Landseer produced a prodigious number of studies from horses. Most of these early drawings depict the working carthorses or farm horses he would have seen around him, wearing their reins and nosebags. Landseer could have drawn horses like these in London but he also visited the Essex countryside where Mr W.W. Simpson, a friend and patron of the Landseer family, owned a farm.
In 1814, Landseer was awarded the silver 'Isis' medal by the Society of Arts for a drawing of a ‘Hunting Horse’. However, despite his early enthusiasm for drawing horses, dogs were to become the main focus of his adult work. There are a few notable exceptions, however, including 'The Arab Tent' (1866) and ‘Taming the Shrew’ (1861).
Object details
117 mm x 160 mm
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