Who Painted This? #28

I was merrily starting this weblog postal service when I noticed that the bottom right paw corner of the motion ikon contained the artist's signature.  Whoops!  It doesn't whatsoever more!  Isn't Photoshop wonderful?

Who painted this? #28

How many times accept artists painted peppers?  Is at that spot a novel means of ikon peppers?  I'll hold upwards really interested to know how you lot acquire to this one.......

The answers volition hold upwards posted inwards side yesteryear side week's Who painted this? #29

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Who Painted This #27 - The Answer

• Title of the artwork: Lion: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Newfoundland Dog
• Name of the creative someone who created this artwork: Sir Edwin Landseer RA (1802 - 1873 ) 
• Date it was created: 1824 
• Media used: oil on canvas; Height: 149.8 cm estimate, Width: 195.6 cm estimate, Weight: 115 kg
• Where it lives now: Victoria together with Albert Museum

The V&A website states

The Newfoundland is a large Canadian working dog, capable of drawing a sledge, together with celebrated for its intelligence, docility together with swimming power. The dog's owner, W. H. de Merle, commissioned this painting. The creative someone based the background on landscape seen inwards Scotland.

It's referenced inwards a majority which states the following

When this large ikon was bequeathed to the South Kensington Museum inwards 1894, it joined 19 other crude paintings yesteryear Landseer, including xvi solitary from the 1857 John Sheepshanks gift. But Lion was the most impressive acquisition, non to the lowest degree because of its sheer size. The ikon was commissioned inwards 1824 yesteryear the dog's owner, W. H. de Merle, for 50 pounds. As a teenager Landseer had established himself every bit a precocious together with prodigious talent, specialising inwards Scottish domestic subjects together with animals, particularly dogs. This is Landseer's earliest handling of the Newfoundland breed, famous for its lifesaving abilities; a multifariousness of the breed was fifty-fifty named afterward the painter. Landseer is fifty-fifty improve known through his engravings of for sure others of his Newfoundland paintings, including Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Distinguished Member of the Humane Society of 1838 together with Saved! of 1856. The bailiwick appealed greatly to nineteenth-century taste, amongst its combination of brute magnificence together with canine heroism. There is a floor - unsupported yesteryear evidence - that this ikon was dispatched inwards a large representative to Paris during the Revolution (either of 1830 or 1848) together with narrowly escaped beingness used every bit a barricade.

You tin shipping away come across to a greater extent than of his drawings of animals inwards the collection of the Royal Academy

Who guessed correct?

Congratulations to Mark (Learning to draw: Learning to see) who got the commencement consummate right respond first.

It would accept been Colours together with Textures - exactly she forgot to say where the ikon is now.  The means I run this to hold upwards fair to everybody is that it's the first consummate right respond which gets highlighted.  I bet you lot won't forget that i over again inwards a hurry!

It seems that every bit I suspected a lot of you lot guessed or knew who the creative someone was straight off away.  While a issue of people got at that spot via the breed of domestic dog - in i trial they'd figured that out!

There were a lot of you lot who too got the right respond were:

• bmcmadden had a really quondam majority of Landseer drawings together with idea the ikon looked familiar, then looked upwards Landseer together with at that spot it was! 
• Sandra Robinson told me that a multifariousness of the Newfoundland breed was named afterward Landseer
• BeanKitty Studio gave me the room inwards the V&A together with the wall it was on!
• David Hawson knew who it was painted for
• Barbara Jackson knew the domestic dog - she's been to Newfoundland together with got splashed yesteryear a really moisture i of these. 
• Roger Brown My Republic of Botswana Art was stumped yesteryear the breed of domestic dog exactly got at that spot inwards the end
• Carol Carbin got it straight off away
• kate wilson remembered Landseer's ikon of doggy feet from an quondam biscuit tin (this has got to hold upwards i of the to a greater extent than odd "how did you lot acquire to the answer" answers!)
• Gabriele has has ii Newfoundland dogs together with is convinced every possessor knows nearly Landseer!

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