Thursday, December 5, 2013

Charles Landseer

Charles Landseer (1799-1879) was a painter of historical subjects. His younger brother was the more famous Sir Edwin Landseer.

 Clarissa Harlowe in the Prison Room of the Sheriff's Office (1833)
[she was the subject of a tragic novel]
  
 Cromwell in the Battle of Naseby in 1645 (1851)
  
 Figures and Dogs in an Interior
  
 The Eve of the Battle of Edge Hill, 1642 (1845)
  
 The Pillaging of a Jew's House in the Reign of Richard I (1839)
  
The Plundering of Basing House (1836)

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