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Description: | Oil on panel . Landseer first visited the Scottish Highlands in 1824, returning many times. In the early to mid 1830s he painted several domestic interior scenes set in Highland cottages; most small ‘oil on panel’ paintings, like this example. The Victoria and Albert Museum owns a similar work titled ‘A Highland Breakfast’ (c.1834), showing a young mother suckling her child while dogs breakfast from a large bowl. A couple similar to the figures in this work are also seen in Landseer’s ‘Highland Scene’ (c.1834) at the Wallace Collection, London. The same models may have sat for all three works.
Landseer painted ‘A Highland Shepherd's Home’ for art collector and patron John Sheepshanks (who also owned ‘A Highland Breakfast’). Sheepshanks referred to the painting as the ‘highland holy family’ in correspondence with the artist of 1840. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1842, the Royal Society of Birmingham Artists in 1858 and at the Academy’s memorial exhibition of Landseer's work in 1874. (A study for the mother and child was included in the artist's studio sale after his death.) The painting was also engraved in 1846 by Welsh engraver Benjamin Phelps Gibbon. | Subjects: | genre Scottish pillow bed 19th century costume curtain father chicken shepherd blanket domestic interior chick window mother woman family bonnet cradle sheep baby dog hen man | Temporal: | 1836 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Sir Edwin Henry Landseer | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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