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Title: ... Landseer : a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924 Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1878
Subjects: Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873 Horses
Publisher: Boston, Mass. New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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y has thrown his slatecrashing to the floor. This exhibition of temper isfollowed by a fit of sulks. He squeezes himselfinto the smallest possible space in the corner, hud-dling his feet together, toes turned in, and pressinghis arms close to his side. The raising of the shoul-ders reminds one of the way a cat raises its back asit shrinks from its enemy. The childs mouth istwisted, pouting in a scornful curve. His eyes,bright with unshed tears, glare sullenly before himinto space. Here is wilfulness and obstinacy to adegree. If the boys face were not disfigured by anger,we should see in him a handsome little fellow. Heis of a sturdy build, with plump arms and shoulders,a noble head with a profusion of flaxen curls, anda face which misrht be charmino^ in another mood.If the schoolmistress could once win him she wouldhave a pupil to be proud of. Such a head as hismight produce a Daniel Webster. The episode of the schoolroom is the story thepainter wished us to read in his work. The real
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John Andrew & Son, Sc. A NAUGHTY CHILD Sonf/i Kensington Musentn, London A NAUGHTY CHILD 69 story of the picture is quite a different tale. Thescene of the Naughty Childs temper was Landseersown studio, and the child was angry, not because hehad to learn a lesson, but because he must sit for hispicture. In those days, before the invention of pho-tography, it was indeed a tedious process to obtaina childs portrait. It is scarcely to be wondered atthat an active boy like this should not relish theprospect of a long sitting. Landseer was struck by the childs beauty andwas eager to make the picture. The outburst oftemper did not trouble him a bit. Seizing his sketch-book he hastily drew the little fellow exactly as helooked. It was characteristic of his art to reproduceaccurately every peculiarity of pose and motion, andhe found this attitude of the child far more noveland interesting than the stiff pose of a commonplaceportrait. It seems hardly probable that the parentscould have bee

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