Carl Haag (1820-1915)

Carl Haag was from Bavaria but went to England in 1847-48 and entered the Royal Academy, specialising in watercolour. He liked the purity and permanence of watercolour and found it was a good medium to paint landscape and figures.

He worked for Queen Victoria and is well-known for two large watercolours of stag shooting, Morning in the Highlands, 1853, and Evening at Balmoral , 1854, which reflect deerstalking expeditions at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.

Eventually, the Queen found Haag expensive and troublesome over the copyright of his pictures, and did not employ him after 1865.