The Monarch of the Glen (painting)

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.

The painting had become something of a cliché by the mid-20th century, as "the ultimate biscuit tin image of Scotland: a bulky stag set against the violet hills and watery skies of an isolated wilderness", according to the Sunday Herald.

[2] In 2017 the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh launched a successful campaign to buy the painting for £4 million, finally achieving the acquisition.

[5] From the collection of William Denison, 1st Earl of Londesborough it passed in 1884 to Henry Eaton, 1st Baron Cheylesmore after whose death in 1891 it realized £7,245 at his sale at Christie's in May 1892 (equivalent to £999,427 in 2023), where it was bought by Agnew's, who resold it to T. Barratt for £8,000.

[12] In 2012 Peter Saville collaborated with Dovecot Studios Edinburgh to celebrate their centenary by creating a large scale tapestry of his work After, After, After Monarch of the Glen.

[13] The painting has also been used on the label of tins of Baxter's Royal Game soup in the UK,[14] and as the backdrop for the front desk of the Rosebudd Motel from the Canadian television sitcom, Schitt's Creek.

The Monarch of the Glen in the Scottish National Gallery
The Monarch of the Glen in the Scottish National Gallery
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