Julian Gascoigne
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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Well, he goes to Scotland in the 1820s, when he himself is still a young artist in his early 20s, and really falls in love with the Highlands of Scotland in particular, with its landscape and with its people, with its culture, and spends a lot of time there.
He basically returns every summer for several months, walking and hunting in the Highlands and
really immersing himself in the culture and this picture is one of a series of paintings that dominate from the last decade of his life and to many are the sort of high point of his career and
In this decade, he really focuses in on the image of the heroic stag as a sort of symbol of the majesty and romance and drama of Scotland.
And he uses the stag kind of as a vehicle to express all those emotions that he's trying to convey of the Highland and the Highland way of life and the ethos of it all.
Well, absolutely.
So Monarch of the Glen is, as you say, it's probably Lance's most famous painting and is an icon, not only of British art, but of sort of Scottish culture the world over.
And if Monarch of the Glen is sort of the first high point of this decade of obsession with the idea of the heroic stag, then this painting, seen in Bremer, is the sort of culmination, the apogee, if you will, of that decade-long obsession.
And it is really, although painted almost 10 years later, it is almost a sister painting to the Monarch of the Glen.
It's much grander in scale.
It's sort of fulsome in its composition.
But the stag here almost mirrors the stag in Monarch of the Glen in terms of composition.
And they kind of speak to each other across the years.
And they really bracket the sort of beginning and end of this high point period of Landseer's art.
It was, absolutely.
And to be honest with you, it's a lesser known aspect of his.
I mean, obviously everybody who comes to London, goes to Trafalgar Square, everybody knows the great lions at the base of Nelson's Column there, one of the great symbols of the London cityscape.
But what less people know is that they were carved by Landseer and he was specifically commissioned for them.
And it's a kind of,
emblematic of the esteem that he was held in by his contemporaries that you know Lancia was not a sculptor he was a painter and yet when it came to commissioning the lions for the base of Nelson's Column
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