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Albert Henry Landseer
Australian politician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Albert Henry Landseer (10 February 1829 – 27 August 1906) was a businessman and politician in the early days of the colony of South Australia. He was a pioneer of the River Murray steamboat trade.
Albert Landseer was born in London in 1829 the only son of Henry Landseer and his wife Lucy. He was a cousin of the noted animal painter Sir Edwin Landseer, who sculpted London's famed Trafalgar Square lions.[1] He studied sculpture under a Mr Johnson, but abandoned art and migrated to South Australia in 1848.[2]
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