George Landseer, was an English painter born 1829[1] and died in London 1878;[2][3] he was the nephew of Sir Edwin Henry Landseer and his father Thomas Landseer was also an artist. He studied at the R.A. schools in 1846 and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1850 until 1858 before establishing a practice in India painting landscapes and portraits in oil and watercolour.[4] He returned to England in about 1870 and gave up painting due to poor health.
The Foal run, Buxar, India
References
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, under his father Thomas Landseer's entry
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, Libraire Gründ 1952, Vol. 5, p. 390
National Portrait Gallery: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp08014/george-landseer
Victoria and Albert Museum: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/name/landseer-george/12066/
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