12 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



Plate 7. — The Whissendine Scene, some in and some over. 



Plate 8. — The Death. The Squire flourishing the brush 

 and Jack Stevens vnXh the scratched face, and the fox equally 

 well drawn. 



" Sporting Anecdotes " was the title of a series 

 of fourteen or more pictures. No. 12 of the series 

 was " The Sporting Bishop. The Clerical View- 

 halloo, or the Hounds at Fault," illustrating the well 

 known anecdote which occurs in one of Nimrod's 

 Htmting Tours. It will be remembered that a 

 certain high dignitary of the Church had kept a 

 pack of foxhounds, which, on his elevation to the 

 Bench he made over to his brother. The hounds 

 were out one day, and the Bishop who had taken 

 a route which he thought the hounds might cross, 

 viewed a fox and the hounds at fault. " Putting 

 his finger under his wig his lordship gave one of 

 his beautiful view-halloos. ' Hark halloo ! ' cried 

 the field. The huntsman listened and the halloo 

 was repeated. ' That will do,' exclaimed he, 

 knowing his old master's voice. 'That's Gospel, 

 by G— ! ' " 



" The Hunting Sweep," perhaps one of Aiken's 

 best known drawings, forms the subject of the 

 fourteenth picture of this series. This man was a 

 well known character and a great favourite with the 

 Duke of Beaufort's Hunt. He is shown on horse- 

 back on the lawn at Badminton. This picture was 



