lO ANIMAL PAINTERS 



i<S29, vol. l.xxiii. It was won by Mr. Field Nichol- 

 son on Magic : King of the Valley second, Lazy 

 Bet third, and Clinker fourth. 



Henry Aiken paid several visits to Colworth, and 

 in the latter years of his life, when consumptive and 

 very weak, was asked by Mr. Magniac to come 

 and remain as long as he liked. The artist accepted 

 the invitation in the spirit in which it had been 

 given, and spent two years with his hospitable 

 patron. During his stay he painted numerous 

 pictures, among them the largest canvas that ever 

 left his easel; this was "The Oakley Hunt," of 

 which Mr. Magniac was master from 1841 to 1847. 



In 1833 Henry Aiken painted "The Ouorn 

 Hunt," a series of eight pictures which were en- 

 graved by Lewis and printed in colour. They were 

 used to illustrate Fox-hunting, published by Rudolph 

 Ackermann. The incidents portrayed were taken 

 from an article describing a day's sport over the 

 cream of Leicestershire with Mr. Osbaldestone's 

 hounds, which appeared in the Qtiarter/y Reviezv in 

 1832, over the familiar signature of Nimrod. A 

 writer in the New Sporting Magazine for 1833, 

 thus describes the incidents illustrated : — 



Plate i. — The Meet at Ashby Pasture, where tandems, car- 

 riages and four, barouches and horsemen without end are 

 seen drawing to the rendezvous, where Mr. Osbaldeston and 

 Jack Stevens are waiting with the hounds. 



