The Barn
Sir Edwin Landseer
1801 to 1825
Medium
pen and brown ink over graphite on two joined sheets of wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 9.5 x 17.9 cm (3 3/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of William B. O'Neal
Accession Number
1995.52.95
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...