Excerpt from Masters in Art, Vol. 5: A Series of Illustrated Monographs; Landseer
John Landseer believed that an ordinary education was of no advantage to an artist, but rather a hindrance to his career, and as Edwin Showed no fondness for books, always running away from his teachers, and always drawing, his father encouraged his natural tastes by taking him at an early. Age - as soon, indeed, as he could hold a pencil with steadiness - into the open fields Which in that day were in the near neighborhood of his home, and there, having lifted the little fellow over the stile which formed the eh trance to what his father in after years would point to as Edwin’s first stu dio, would bid him sketch the cows and sheep grazing there. Sometimes Edwin was accompanied on such expeditions by his brothers, but as he grew older he would often start off alone to Spend hours in the fields drawing the animals about him, more than content to stay until his father went in search of him later in the day, when his drawings would be criticized and their faults corrected on the spot.
Some of these youthful studies by Landseer are preserved in the South Kensington Museum, London, and from the notes they bear, made by his father, we see that many of them, surprisingly clever for so young a child, were made by the artist when only five or six years old. At the age of seven Landseer had learned to etch, and before he was twelve he had begun to paint in oils. In 1813, when eleven years old, he won the prize of the sil ver palette of the Society of Arts for drawings of animals, and in the-three following years the Isis silver medal of the same society was awarded him.
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