{"id":669028,"date":"2026-07-02T02:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/669028\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T02:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:40:09","slug":"monarch-of-the-glen-sister-painting-sells-for-5-9m-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/669028\/","title":{"rendered":"Monarch of the Glen sister painting sells for \u00a35.9m at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The painting&#8217;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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Julian Gascoigne, senior director in Sotheby&#8217;s paintings department, said it was one of Landseer&#8217;s great Highland masterpieces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He described it as an atmospheric sister painting of the Monarch of the Glen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gascoigne said: &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 1857, The Times praised it as &#8220;masterly in conception and effect&#8221; and a worthy partner to Monarch of the Glen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The painting has been exhibited in public galleries on a number of occasions since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The painting&#8217;s last appearance at auction was in 1994 when it sold for \u00a3793,500. It fetched \u00a35,946,000 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-669028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}