The Stone Breaker and His Daughter

The Stone Breaker and His Daughter
The Stone Breaker and His Daughter
Artist	Edwin Landseer
Year	1830
Type	Oil on panel, genre painting
Dimensions	45.7 cm × 58.4 cm (18.0 in × 23.0 in)
Location	Victoria and Albert Museum, London

ArtistEdwin Landseer

Year1830

TypeOil on panel, genre painting

Dimensions45.7 cm × 58.4 cm (18.0 in × 23.0 in)

The Stone Breaker and His Daughter is an 1830 genre painting by the British artist Edwin Landseer.^[1] It shows a stonebreaker, one of the workers who broke rocks for the laying of new roads, in the Scottish Highlands. Landseer offers a sympathetic depiction of the weary man, exhausted by his tiring labour, and contrasts it with the fresh-faced innocence of his young daughter who has brought him his lunch basket.^[2] It is also known simply as The Stonebreaker. The work was displayed at the British Institution's annual exhibition of 1830 in Pall Mall.^[2] Today the painting is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, having been part of the Jones Bequest by the art collector John Jones.^[3]

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Paintings	Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveller (1820) The Dog and the Shadow (1822) Lion, a Newfoundland Dog (1824) The Hunting of Chevy Chase (1826) The Monkey Who Had Seen the World (1827) A Scene at Abbotsford (1827) Attachment (1829) Highland Music (1829) The Illicit Highland Whisky Still (1829) Low Life and High Life (1829) The Faithful Hound (1830) The Stone Breaker and His Daughter (1830) A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society (1831) Hawking in the Olden Time (1832) Lady Blessington's Dog (1832) The Eagle's Nest (1833) The Hunted Stag (1833) A Jack in Office (1833) Bolton Abbey in the Olden Time (1834) A Highland Breakfast (1834) Suspense (1834) The Drover's Departure (1835) The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner (1837) Dignity and Impudence (1839) Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals (1839) Laying Down the Law (1840) A Favourite Greyhound of Prince Albert (1841) There's No Place Like Home (1842) Shoeing (1844) The Deer Drive (1847) Queen Victoria at Loch Laggan (1847) A Random Shot (1848) A Dialogue at Waterloo (1850) Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1851) The Monarch of the Glen (1851) Uncle Tom (1857) Doubtful Crumbs (1858–1859) Flood in the Highlands (1860) Man Proposes, God Disposes (1864) The Connoisseurs (1865) Lady Godiva's Prayer (1865) Queen Victoria at Osborne (1866) The Arab Tent (1866)
Sculptures	Nelson's Column lions (1867)
Honors	Landseer dog
Related	John Landseer (father) Thomas Landseer (brother) Charles Landseer (brother) Jessica Landseer (sister) Alexander and Diogenes The Murder of Rutland by Lord Clifford Portrait of Sir Edwin Landseer Sir Edwin Landseer in His Studio

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