LANDSEER, Sir Edwin Henry
(b. 1802, London, d. 1873, London)

Venus, a Landseer Newfoundland with a Rabbit

1819
Oil on canvas, 116 x 141 cm
Private collection

This canvas, painted when the artist was just 17 years old, was exhibited at the British Institution in 1819, as A Newfoundland Dog with Rabbit. It is the first of many such images of Newfoundland dogs which Landseer would later paint, and for which he is justly famous.




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