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the great picture which he executed for Lord Kel- 

 burne, of the York Match, and also in his start for 

 the Derby ; he never sat to Harry Hall, but a most 

 capital full front likeness of him in the Darlington 

 colours, by Spalding, is to be seen in the centre of 

 the sheet-picture of Southern Jockeys. 



Ben Marshall, the painter, was, as we have said 

 before, a great ally of the Chifneys, who admired him 

 as a painter nearly as much as they did Robson in 

 his more practical art. He came into especial notice 

 on the death of Stubbs, who had a great run among 

 our forefathers, which none of his pictures quite seem 

 to justify. Stubbs painted figures and landscapes as 

 well as horses, and especially excelled in the first of 

 these three walks. The late Frank Butler had a 

 picture by him of his grandfather the first Sam 

 Chifney riding a horse in and setting-to with a 

 slack rein, in which the figure is most beautifully 

 painted, while the horse is very moderate. We 

 have, however, seen some of his horse groups, one 

 especially of some mares and foals at the Marquis of 

 Westminster's, in London, most capitally drawn and 

 painted. His chief failing was a lack of anatomical 

 knowledge, and his horses in motion were stiff and 

 unnatural to the last degree. He adopted the old 

 style of making the hind pasterns bend inwards in 

 the gallop, instead of outwards, as they are now more 

 correctly drawn. Marshall was originally a West- 

 end valet, and did not set up his easel till he was 

 above thirty. At first he confined himself to portrait 

 painting, but as he soon found that " gentlemen 

 would give 50 guineas for the portrait of a horse 

 when they grudged 10 guineas for their wife's," he 

 migrated from London to Newmarket. He was an 

 idle painter, and a great bon vivant ; very full of 

 humour and anecdote, and seldom, if ever, worked 

 after his two-o'clock dinner. Those who watched 

 him at his easel used always to declare that he painted 



