Monarch of the Gallery Painting

Landseer's Monarch of the Glen being admired by a stag beetle, human interest is only perfunctory. The Monarch of the Glen is an oil-on-canvas painting of a red deer stag completed in 1851 by the English painter Sir Edwin Landseer RA, which was commissioned as part of a series of three panels to hang in the Palace of Westminster in London. The painting is reportedly set in Glen Affric. The stag has twelve points on his antlers, which in deer terminology makes him a "royal stag" but not a "monarch stag", for which sixteen points are needed. In 1850 Landseer received a national commission to paint three subjects connected with the chase for the Refreshment Rooms of the House of Lords. Once they were completed the House of Commons refused to grant the £150 promised for the commission, and, as a result, the paintings were sold to private collectors. The painting was purchased in 1916 by Pears Soap company. It was sold on to John Dewar & Sons distillery and became their trademark before similarly being used by Glenfiddich. The original is now part of the Diageo collection and is currently on display in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:19.7 W x 31.5 H x 0.8 D in

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