96 Among Men and Horses. 



ings. I can never be sufficiently grateful to him for the 

 untiring patience and sympathetic interest with which he 

 worked for me. The purified ghost of the lost book on the 

 make and shape of horses now began to haunt my mind. 

 I made a desperate effort to re-write it on greatly improved 

 lines, and Mr Brown illustrated many of my ideas ; but all 

 in vain. I felt that I was lacking in knowledge and experi- 

 ence, and accordingly tore up the manuscript at which I had 

 toiled ; hoping that some day the true inspiration would come 

 with more matured knowledge. 



Mr Allen Sealy was another capable artist whom I met 

 at Newmarket, when, if I remember rightly, he was taking 

 the portraits of a couple of horses which were in Mr Alf. 

 Sadler's stable. While in London during the early part of 

 1885, I was asked by Mr Sealy one day to give my opinion 

 on a horse picture of his, which was in the gallery of Mr 

 Mendoza. While there, Mr Sam Waller came in and Mr 

 Sealy introduced me to him. He, I need hardly say, is 

 the famous painter of whose works, like those of ' 'Twixt 

 Love and Duty/ ' The Day of Reckoning/ and many others, 

 are known and liked by everyone. I, of course, began 

 to talk horse, which proved a very attractive subject to 

 Mr Waller, whose paintings almost always contain one or 

 more of these animals. As we were about to say ' good- 

 bye ' and part, he asked me why I did not teach artists the 

 principles of equine conformation. I replied that nothing 

 would please me better, if I had the chance. He said that he 

 knew several animal painters who would be glad to join a 

 class, if I would lecture to them ; and that he would get 

 up the class, if I liked. I warmly and gratefully thanked 

 him for his kindness, and, a few days afterwards, commenced 

 my lectures at his house in Circus Road. I was flattered 

 and delighted to have such pupils as Mr Briton Riviere 

 who was so pleased with my teaching that he brought his 

 son Mr Waller, Mr John Charlton (of The Graphic), Mr 

 Haywood Hardy, Mr Sealy and others, all of whom took 



