| Intro | British artist | ||
| Was | Painter | ||
| From | United Kingdom | ||
| Type | Arts | ||
| Gender | male | ||
| Birth | 1834 | ||
| Death |
1 January 1878, London, Greater London, London, England (aged 44 years) |
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George Landseer, was an English painter born 1829 and died in London 1878; he was the nephew of Sir Edwin Henry Landseer and his father Thomas Landseer was also an artist. He studied at the R.A. schools in 1846 and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1850 until 1858 before establishing a practice in India painting landscapes and portraits in oil and watercolour. He returned to England in about 1870 and gave up painting due to poor health.