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Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:350.00 USD Estimated At:350.00 - 500.00 USD
Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry.
&#40;1802-1873&#41; Favorite painter of Queen Victoria. Autograph Letter Signed &#34;<I>Landseer</I>,&#34; on blue stationery, 1½ pp, 6¼x4&#34;, St. John&#39;s Wood Road N.W., 16 May 1865. Fine. In part: &#34;<I>I am not able to give attention to any thing till after the 19th &#40;when Her M goes North&#41; - for whom I am working against time</I>….&#34; On May 8th, Landseer posed Queen Victoria seated on a horse held by her devoted servant John Brown [their relationship was the subject of the 1997 film <I>Mrs. Brown</I>] for a photograph which became the basis of the chalk drawing, &#34;Her Majesty At Osborn In 1866.&#34; This drawing, now in the Royal Collection, was made into a popular print commonly called &#34;Sorrow.&#34; Landseer was rushed because the Queen&#39;s annual summer visit to Balmoral could not be postponed.