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<\/p>\nA little known sister painting of the iconic Monarch of the Glen has sold for \u00a35.9m at auction in London.<\/p>\n
Scene in Braemar, by Queen Victoria’s favourite artist Sir Edwin Landseer, fetched five times the previous record for one of his works.<\/p>\n
Featuring a 12-point stag on a Scottish Highland peak, it was commissioned by railway magnate Edward Betts and has passed through various private collections.<\/p>\n
Sotheby’s had estimated it would sell for up to \u00a34m.<\/p>\n
Monarch of the Glen, which hangs in the National Galleries of Scotland, is one of the most recognisable and reproduced paintings in British art.<\/p>\n
Although lesser known, Scene in Braemar is much larger at almost 9ft (2.74m).<\/p>\n
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The Monarch of the Glen painting by Sir Edwin Landseer at the National Gallery of Scotland [PA Media]<\/p>\n
The painting’s last appearance at auction was in 1994 when it sold for \u00a3793,500. It fetched \u00a35,946,000 in this latest sale.<\/p>\n
Julian Gascoigne, senior director in Sotheby’s paintings department, said it was one of Landseer’s great Highland masterpieces.<\/p>\n
He described it as an atmospheric sister painting of the Monarch of the Glen.<\/p>\n
Gascoigne said: “Where the Monarch shows the stag in the brilliance of youth, this is a darker, more epic vision: majestic, charged with tension, and iconic in its vision of the Highlands.”<\/p>\n
In 1857, The Times praised it as “masterly in conception and effect” and a worthy partner to Monarch of the Glen.<\/p>\n
Edward Betts originally paid \u00a3800 for the work, but a banking crisis forced the industrialist to sell the work along with the rest of his collection in 1868.<\/p>\n
The painting has been exhibited in public galleries on a number of occasions since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A little known sister painting of the iconic Monarch of the Glen has sold for \u00a35.9m at auction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[238300,85,46,238301,238299,120671,238298,125],"class_list":["post-520597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-edward-betts","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-julian-gascoigne","tag-monarch-of-the-glen","tag-national-galleries-of-scotland","tag-sir-edwin-landseer","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}