1. landseer, sir edwin henry greatest English animal-painter, born in London, the son of an engraver and writer on art, trained by his father, sketched animals before he was six years old, and exhibited in the RoyalAcademy before thirteen; in his early years he portrayed simply the form and colour and movement of animal life, but after his twenty-first year he added usually some sentiment or idea; elected A.R.A. in 1826, and R.A. in 1830; he was knighted in 1853; fiveyears later he won a goldmedal in Paris; in 1859 he modelled the TrafalgarSquare lions; after 1861 he suffered from mental depression, and declined the Presidency of the RoyalAcademy in 1866 (1802-1873).
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