Edwin Landseer (1802–1873) was an English painter and sculptor who became the preeminent animal painter of Victorian Britain, celebrated above all for his images of Highland stags, working and sporting dogs, and the romantic landscapes of Scotland. A prodigy who exhibited at the Royal Academy at the age of thirteen, he went on to earn the sustained patronage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who considered him a personal friend and trusted him with portraits of their beloved pets. His best-known work, The Monarch of the Glen — a single red deer stag surveying a misty Highland glen — became one of the most reproduced images in Victorian visual culture and remains immediately recognizable. Landseer brought to animal subjects a combination of naturalist precision and emotional projection that connected profoundly with Victorian audiences, and his work continues to find collectors drawn to its combination of technical mastery and unapologetic sentiment.