Scene In Braemar
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What is the significance of Sir Edwin Landseer's Scene in Braemar?
Just before we go, you might remember last week we told you about a painting by Sir Edwin Landseer that was due to go under the hammer at Sotheby's in London on July 1st. That was last Wednesday. The work, seen in Braemar, depicts a stag in the Scottish highlands and is often regarded as a companion piece... to Lancier's most famous work, Monarch of the Glen. Ahead of the sale, we spoke to Sotheby's senior director, Julian Gascoyne, who described it as a more dramatic work and one on a much grander scale than Lancier's most famous image.
This picture is one of a series of paintings that dominate kind of the last decade of his life and to many are the sort of high points of his career. So 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 Highlands and the Highland way of life and the ethos of it all, although painted differently. 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
How does the painting compare to Landseer's Monarch of the Glen?
the sort of beginning and end of this high point period of Landseer's art.
Well, I can tell you that the painting has now set a new auction record for the artist, seen in Braemar, sold for £5.9 million, that is, above Sotheby's pre-sale estimate and around five times the previous auction record for a Landseer work. Don't forget you can visit the website anytime you like, rte.ie forward slash Mooney. Until next time, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. Mooney Goes Wild. Listen back on the RTE Radio Player app.
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