| The Stone Breaker and His Daughter | |
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| Artist | Edwin Landseer |
| Year | 1830 |
| Type | Oil on panel, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 45.7 cm× 58.4 cm(18.0 in× 23.0 in) |
| Location | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
The Stone Breaker and His Daughter is an 1830 genre painting by the British artist Edwin Landseer. [1] It shows a stonebreaker, one of the workers who broke rocks for the laying of new roads, in the Scottish Highlands. Landseer offers a sympathetic depiction of the weary man, exhausted by his tiring labour, and contrasts it with the fresh-faced innocence of his young daughter who has brought him his lunch basket. [2] It is also known simply as The Stonebreaker. The work was displayed at the British Institution's annual exhibition of 1830 in Pall Mall. [2] Today the painting is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, having been bequeathed by the art collector John Jones. [3]