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Sir Edwin Landseer RA was born on 7 March 1802, in London. He was an English painter, well known for his paintings of animals, particularly horses, dogs and stags. He painted ‘Monarch of the Glen’ in 1851, and he painted some excellent dog paintings. He was also a sculptor and the four lions at Nelsons Column in Trafalgar Square completed in 1867.
Landseer's death on 1 October 1873 was widely marked in England: shops and houses lowered their blinds, flags flew at half mast, his bronze lions at the base of Nelson's column were hung with wreaths, and large crowds lined the streets to watch his funeral cortege pass. Landseer was buried in St Paul's Cathedral, London.
At his death, Landseer left behind three unfinished paintings: Finding the Otter, Nell Gwynne and The Dead Buck, all on easels in his studio. It was his dying wish that his friend John Everett Millais should complete the paintings, and this he did
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