74 THE HOESE OF AMEEICA. 



laughed at by all artists as well as by all men who knew anything 

 about the shape of a horse, as a monstrosity, and it was received 

 in the same spirit on this side of the water; but it bore the name 

 of a great artist and that was sufficient to secure the approbation 

 of the unthinking and the unknowing. The only key to the 

 origin of the horse, the only pedigree that can be given, must be 

 found written in his own structure of bone and muscle and 

 brain. A true delineation, therefore, of his form and shape be- 

 came a matter of the highest moment, not merely to satisfy the 

 curiosity of the curious, but as a study of the true sources of his 

 wonderful prepotency. 



Sixty-five years ago a correspondent of Mr. Skinner's maga- 

 zine, referred to above, and a descendant of Mr. Samuel Gallo- 

 way of Maryland, spoke of an oil painting of Godolphin Arabian 

 that had hung in the hall at Tulip Hill from the days of his 

 childhood as still hanging there, and said that it was wholly 

 unlike the Stubbs engraving. Mr. Galloway was one of Mary- 

 land's land barons, an enthusiastic horse breeder, and a success- 

 ful horse racer. He was educated at Cambridge, I think; and if 

 so, no doubt he saw Godolphin Arabian many times before he 

 died, for he was within four or five miles of him, and his sport- 

 ing instincts could not fail to take him to see so great a horse 

 when so near at hand. As he was a young man of great wealth 

 and great ambitions, it is quite probable he was on terms of 

 friendly acquaintance, if not intimacy, with Lord Godolphin, and 

 thus secured the oil painting from that distinguished friend him- 

 self. This theory is strengthened by the fact that the picture 

 still bears the coat of arms of Lord Godolphin. 



To reach and secure this picture, or at least a faithful copy of 

 it, became an object of continuous effort that was never inter- 

 mitted for more than twenty years. At last, in the spring of 

 1877, one of the correspondents of Wallace's Monthly, Prof. M. 0. 

 Ellzey, of Blacksburg, Virginia, wrote me that the picture was 

 then the property of Dr. J. H. Murray (whose wife was a lineal 

 descendant of Mr. Galloway) of Cedar Park, adjoining Tulip Hill, 

 West River, Maryland, and that he would have the picture sent 

 to me. In a few days it arrived, and when my eyes rested upon 

 it, it was like the feast of a lifetime; for there was all that could 

 ever be known of the greatest horse of his century. The paint- 

 ing was in a state of excellent preservation and the coat of arms 

 of Lord Godolphin was plainly traceable. The horse is shown 



