PREFACE

CONTENTS AND LIST OF PICTURES

INTRODUCTION I. ON LANDSEER'S CHARACTER AS AN ARTIST.

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

AUTHORS' PORTRAITS FOR SCHOOL USE

PORTRAITS OF AUTHORS AND PICTURES OF THEIR HOMES FOR THE USE OF PUPILS IN THE STUDY OF LITERATURE

ORNAMENTS FOR SCHOOL-ROOMS THE ATLANTIC LIFE-SIZE PORTRAITS

AUTHORS' HOMES, FOR SCHOOL USE.

LANDSEER

A COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN PICTURES

AND A PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER

WITH INTRODUCTION AND

INTERPRETATION

BY

ESTELLE M. HURLL

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1901

Copyright, 1901, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

Published November, 1901.