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Oil on canvas 69 by 89.5 cm.; 27 1/4 by 35 1/4 in. Evening Scene in the Highlands was reviewed in the Art Journal 1849, p. 174: "Two stags eye each other - scene in deep shadow laid in with transparent brown colour different from usually clearly marked style of artist." William Keyl mentions the picture in conversation with Landseer on 9th April 1867, "when presently going out Mr. R. William Russell pointed at the Velasquez sketch (formerly Sir Francis Grant's and exchanged for Deer at lake exhibited at Royal Academy some years ago) and said it was Al" (Keyl Papers, Royal Collection, St.James's Palace). This Velasquez is presumably The Betrothal of an Infanta which was lot 150 in the Landseer sale, on 8th May 1874. The Atheneum records on page 495 ".....and a landscape, - Evening Scene in the Highlands (512) an effect of light and shade and colour - shows that the painter is alive to the propriety of selecting new matter and new combinations - though the novelty makes, nevertheless, the smallest part of the charm". We are grateful to Richard Ormond for his help in cataloguing this lot. PROVENANCE Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A.; Sir John Fowler, his sale, Christie's 6th May 1899, lot 61, bt. Gooden for L336.0; Mrs David Mason-MacFarlane; General Sir Noel Mason-MacFarlane (1889-1953), her son; Thence by descent to the present owner EXHIBITED Royal Academy, 1849, no. 512; Royal Academy, The Works of the Late Sir Edwin Landseer R.A., 1874, no. 434 (lent by Sir Francis Grant); Grosvenor Gallery, Summer Exhibition, 1888 LITERATURE Algernon Graves, Catalogue of the Works of the late Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., 1875, p.29.