Monarch of the Glen 'sister painting' could fetch £4m at auction

Monarch of the Glen 'sister painting' could fetch £4m at auction3 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GooglePauline McLeanScotland arts correspondentRayan BamhayanScene in Braemar features a 12-point stag on a Highland peakA little-known sister painting of Sir Edwin Landseer's Monarch of the Glen is expected to fetch up to £4m when it is auctioned in London next month.Scene in Braemar features a 12-point stag on a Highland peak.It was commissioned by the railway magnate Edward Ladd Betts for his home in Kent and has since passed through various private collections.Its last appearance at auction was in 1994 when it was sold for £793,500.Sotheby's estimates it will sell for between £3m and £4m when it goes under the hammer in July.Museum exhibits rarely-seen artwork of HighlandsMonarch of the Glen saved for nationJulian Gascoigne, senior director in the paintings department, said the work was one of Landseer's great Highland masterpieces.He described it as an atmospheric sister painting of the Monarch of the Glen, which hangs in the National Galleries of Scotland.Gascoigne said: "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."It is rarely seen in public and among the most spectacular Landseers still in private ownership - monumental in scale and a true masterpiece by one of the greatest animal painters."PA MediaThe Monarch of the Glen painting by Sir Edwin Landseer was moved to its new home at the National Gallery of Scotland in 2023Sir Edwin Landseer was Queen Victoria's favourite artist and regularly stayed at Mar Lodge, close to Balmoral.Monarch of the Glen is his most famous work, and one of the most recognisable and reproduced paintings in British art.It features on everything from whisky bottles to biscuit tins - and even appeared in the hit US show Schitt's Creek.The painting had been on...