Landseer's 'Scene in Braemar' Sells for £5.9m, Five Times Previous Record
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- Sir Edwin Landseer's 'Scene in Braemar', a sister painting to the 'Monarch of the Glen', has sold for £5.9m at auction in London, exceeding its £4m estimate and setting a new record for the artist.
- The large-scale work, depicting a stag on a Highland peak, was commissioned by Edward Betts and has been in private collections since its last sale in 1994 for £793,500.
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A little known sister painting of the iconic Monarch of the Glen has sold for £5.9m at auction in London.
Scene in Braemar, by Queen Victoria's favourite artist Sir Edwin Landseer, fetched five times the previous record for one of his works.
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.
Sotheby's had estimated it would sell for up to £4m.
Monarch of the Glen, which hangs in the National Galleries of Scotland, is one of the most recognisable and reproduced paintings in British art.
Although lesser known, Scene in Braemar is much larger at almost 9ft (2.74m).
The painting's last appearance at auction was in 1994 when it sold for £793,500. It fetched £5,946,000 in this latest sale.
