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Landseer may refer to:
- Albert Henry Landseer (1829–1906), South Australian politician and businessman
- Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873), painter
- Landseer (horse) (1999–2002), thoroughbred racehorse trained in Ireland
- Landseer (dog), a black-and-white variant of the Newfoundland, named after the painter
- Landseer (Continental-European type), a distinct dog breed recognized by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale
The Landseer (European Continental Type) is a dog breed. The breed is not recognized by all kennel clubs . It is not to be confused with a white and black Newfoundland, which is also often called a "landseer". The Landseer E.C.T. (European Continental Type) is a separate breed and recognized as such by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale.
The breed was named after the British painter Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, because in 1838 he created the painting A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society, which shows a dog of this breed.
Landseer (February 28, 1999 – October 26, 2002) was a Thoroughbred racehorse. A son of Champion sire Danehill, he was out of the mare, Sabria, whose sire Miswaki was the sire of the great filly Urban Sea. Owned and raced by Michael Tabor & Sue Magnier, the colt was conditioned by the Irish trainer, Aidan O'Brien.
Sent to the track at age two, in June 2001 Jamie Spencer rode Landseer to victory in the then Group III Coventry Stakes. The colt's other notable results that year came in October when he ran second to stablemate Rock of Gibraltar in England's Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse. He finished second again under jockey Michael Kinane in the Critérium International at Saint-Cloud Racecourse in France.
As a three-year-old, Landseer finished third in April's Prix de Fontainebleau at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris then won the May running of the Group One Poule d'Essai des Poulains. In June, he had another second-place finish to Rock of Gibraltar, this time in the St. James's Palace Stakes at Ascot Racecourse in England. Landseer's next success came in October when he made his first start in the United States. Ridden by Edgar Prado, he defeated what Thoroughbred Times described as a "quality-laden field" in capturing the Grade I Shadwell Turf Mile Stakes at Keeneland Race Course in Kentucky.
Usage examples of "landseer".
From the wall opposite the bed, a Landseer stag stared down with eyes which would have better suited a saint.
The old woman was standing beneath the Landseer stag, and when she saw Sophie, she stared at her for a moment.
The chairs were of red morocco, the curtains a brownish-red, the walls green, and on them hung a set of Landseer prints.
He noticed the Landseer engraving hung against wallpaper designed in facsimile of large rectangles of gray stone, and the usual telephone memorandum for the usual Mrs.
Tommy would require a Landseer to do full justice to his attitudes and expression.
Every one knows how wonderfully popular the works of Landseer have been, and he was an animal painter, and his subjects chiefly suggested by sport.
The twenty-seven-year-old beastmaster was lionized, painted by Landseer on a commission for the Duke of Wellington, and was showered with money by young noblemen for instructing them in the art of taming.
I walked down the corridor, looked at a particularly fine Landseer painting and sat down upon a Regency chair, one of a pair.
And as for giving his beloved pictures to the race which adored Landseer, Edwin Long, and Leighton-- the idea nauseated him.
He should have stayed at home and looked at his Landseers and read his Bulwer, but he took his cow to market, and the trained milkers milked her dry and then ate her.
Rather follow in the steps of your Turners, and Landseers, and Standfields, and Creswicks, and add your contribution to the present noble school of naturalist painters.
Mering didnt find any, but she did find a ruby glass fruit compote, a lithograph of Landseers The Monarch of the Glen, and a moth-eaten tigerskin rug for the jumble sale.