He died in London on 22 July 1879, leaving 10,000 guineas to the Royal Academy to fund scholarships. While under Haydon's instruction he also made a series of detailed anatomical drawings. and his Adherents before the Battle of Edgehill, Clarissa Harlowe in the Prison Room of the Sheriff's Office (1833, now in the collection of the Tate Gallery), The Pillaging of a Jew's House in the Reign of Richard I (1839, Tate Gallery) and The Temptation of Andrew Marvel (1841). His works included The Meeting of Charles I. He paid close attention to the historical accuracy of the accessories and details in his paintings. Most of his pictures were of subjects from British history, or from literature. In 1851, he was appointed Keeper of the Royal Academy, a post requiring him to teach in the "Antique School". He became an associate in of the Royal Academy in 1837, and a full academician in 1845. Here Landseer depicts a monumental and precisely defined ‘royal’ or twelve point stag a reference to the number of points on. Many of the drawings he made on the journey were shown at the British Institution in 1828. The Monarch of the Glen is one of the most famous British pictures of the nineteenth century for many people it encapsulates the grandeur and majesty of Scotland’s highlands and wildlife. In 1823 he accompanied Sir Charles Stuart de Rothesay on a diplomatic mission to Portugal and Brazil. He was awarded the silver palette of the Royal Society of Arts for a drawing of Laocoon in 1815, and in 1816 he entered the Royal Academy Schools where he was taught by Henry Fuseli. He trained under his father, and the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon. He was born in London on 12 August 1799, the second son of the engraver John Landseer, and the elder brother of the animal painter, Sir Edwin Landseer. Life Charles Landseer's Cromwell reading a letter found in Charles's Cabinet, after Naseby Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Charles Landseer RA (12 August 1799 – 22 July 1879) was an English painter, mostly of historical subjects.
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