Lion Defending its Prey
Sir Edwin Landseer
c. 1840
Medium
oil on paper on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 25.1 x 32.4 cm (9 7/8 x 12 3/4 in.) framed: 42.6 x 54.9 x 4.8 cm (16 3/4 x 21 5/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp
Accession Number
2004.166.26
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Sir Edwin Landseer
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA was born on 7 March 1802 in London, England, the son of the engraver John Landseer A.R.A. and Jane Potts. A recognized prodigy, he studied under his father and the history painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, who urged him to perform animal dissections to master musculature and skeletal structure. He trained at the Royal Academy Schools and first exhibited there in 1815 at a...