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A Highland Shepherd's Home

Image credit: Government Art Collection

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Landseer first visited the Scottish Highlands in 1824, returning many times. In the early to mid 1830s he painted several domestic interior scenes set in Highland cottages; most small 'oil on panel' paintings, like this example. The Victoria and Albert Museum owns a similar work titled 'A Highland Breakfast' (c.1834), showing a young mother suckling her child while dogs breakfast from a large bowl. A couple similar to the figures in this work are also seen in Landseer's 'Highland Scene' (c.1834) at the Wallace Collection, London. The same models may have sat for all three works. Landseer painted 'A Highland Shepherd's Home' for art collector and patron John Sheepshanks (who also owned 'A Highland Breakfast'). Sheepshanks referred to the painting as the 'highland holy family' in correspondence with the artist of 1840.

Government Art Collection

London

Title

A Highland Shepherd's Home

Date

c.1836

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 48 x W 59.5 cm

Accession number

2619

Acquisition method

purchased from Colnaghi's, 1954

Work type

Painting

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