| CHAPTER I. | | PAGE | | Origin of the Landseer family—Parentage of Edwin Henry Landseer—Thomas Landseer | 1 | | CHAPTER II. | | Early life—Landseer’s first studio—Etchings—First picture at the Royal Academy—Haydon’s studio | 16 | | CHAPTER III. | | A fully-developed painter—Early paintings—British Institution—The Cat’s Paw | 39 | | CHAPTER IV. | | At St. John’s Wood—Chevy Chase—Chief’s Return from Deer-stalking—Made Royal Academician (1830)—Lassie herding sheep | 58 | | CHAPTER V. | | Suspense—Highland Shepherd Dog—Bolton Abbey—Drover’s departure—Shepherd’s Chief Mourner—Dignity and Impudence—Otters and Salmon—The Sanctuary | 72 | | CHAPTER VI. | | Windsor Castle in the present time—Not caught yet—The Otter speared—Shoeing—The random shot—Dialogue at Waterloo—Landseer knighted | 87 | | CHAPTER VII. | | Sir Edwin Landseer—The Monarch of the Glen—Midsummer Night’s Dream—Maid and Magpie—The Flood in the Highlands | 94 | | CHAPTER VIII. | | Man proposes, God disposes—The Connoisseurs—The Swannery invaded—Closing Years—Death of Landseer | 105 |
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