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Julien Gascoigne, senior director of paintings at Sotheby’s, said it was one of Landseer’s greatest Highland masterpieces.
Glenn Emperor describes it as an atmospheric sister painting.
Gascoigne said: “Where the emperor shows the pillar in the brightness of youth, this is a darker, more fantastic vision: majestic, full of tension and a symbol in the vision of the Highlanders.”
In the year In 1857 The Times praised him as “brilliant in conception and effect” and a worthy partner for Glenn Monarch.
Edward Bates originally paid £800 for the work, but a banking crisis forced the industrialist to sell the work along with the rest of the collection in 1868.
The painting has since been exhibited in public galleries at various times.
