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brilliant colouring, brought him hosts of admirers. 

 The treatment of his subjects was quite Cuyp-like in 

 its breadth, while his feeling for aerial perspective 

 gave immense power to his groups. Latterly his style 

 became careless and coarse, and his once-brilliant 

 colouring degenerated into vulgarity. Although for 

 many years it was the fashion to have every great 

 winner painted by him, it was his figures rather than 

 his horses which made his racing pictures so life-like 

 and attractive. Still, in this point Harry Hall has 

 quite equalled, if not beaten him ; and we know of 

 nothing of Marshall's which can bear comparison with 

 the study of Nat and his pony in Lord Clifden's 

 picture of Surplice, or of Harry Stebbings leading 

 Knight of St. George to the St. Leger post. Even 

 when he put forth his greatest powers, his horse-draw- 

 ing was rather that of a well-taught man than a lover 

 of the four-legged subject ; and in his picture of 

 the match between Sir Joshua and Filho da Puta, the 

 portrait of the latter (who was trained, as a writer of 

 the period [1817] observes, "by a very civil and ap- 

 parently deserving young man of the name of John 

 Scott") hardly gives one a worthy idea of the magni- 

 ficent sixteen-and-a-half-hand son of Haphazard. He 

 quitted Newmarket in 1832, and died in London two 

 years afterwards ; and his most enduring monument 

 is to be found in the long series of engravings from his 

 works which embellished the pages of the Old Sport- 

 ing Magazine. 



In the course of the autumn of " SAM'S" Derby 

 year, Mr. Thornhill's horses left Perren's, and were 

 placed under Sam's charge, as trainer, although his 

 brother William looked principally after them. With 

 brothers less attached to each other, an arrangement 

 of this kind might have led to some misunderstand- 

 ing ; but during the whole of their long connexion, 

 both as regarded the management of Mr. Thornhill's, 

 as well as Lord Darlington's stud, which came from 



