Landseer

A collection of 15 pictures (black and white) and a portrait of the painter, with introduction and interpretation by Estelle Hurll. According to Wikipedia: ' Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, RA (7 March 1802 - 1 October 1873) was an English painter, well known for his paintings of animals-particularly horses, dogs and stags. The best known of Landseer's works, however, are sculptures: the lions in Trafalgar Square, London... Estelle May Hurll (1863-1924), a student of aesthetics, wrote a series of popular aesthetic analyses of art in the early twentieth century.Hurll was born 25 July 1863 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, daughter of Charles W. and Sarah Hurll. She attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1882. From 1884 to 1891 she taught ethics at Wellesley. Hurll received her A.M. from Wellesley in 1892. In earning her degree, Hurll wrote Wellesley's first master's thesis in philosophy under Mary Whiton Calkins; her thesis was titled 'The Fundamental Reality of the Aesthetic.' After earning her degree, Hurll engaged in a short career writing introductions and interpretations of art, but these activities ceased before she married John Chambers Hurll on 29 June 1908.'