50 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



was " The Wiltshire Coursing Prize Picture," a 

 large canvas containing forty-six portraits of the 

 leading lights in the turf and coursino- worlds. 

 Among the gentlemen who appear in this picture 

 are Lord Stradbroke, Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, 

 Mr. Bowes, Mr. Harry Briggs, Mr. Bagge, Mr. 

 Etwell, Captain Daintree, Mr. Graham, Squire 

 Goodlake, Mr. Inskipp, Mr. Parkinson, Mr. Bowyer 

 Smith, Mr. Wyndham, and Mr. Nicholson the 

 flag steward. The group is painted against a 

 landscape background with a view of Stonehenge 

 in the distance. This picture was afterwards en- 

 graved and published by the artists themselves. 



Other pictures produced by the two brothers 

 were : " Portrait of Thomas Brand, Esq., and his 

 Huntsman;" "Portrait of Mr. Davis, Huntsman 

 to Her Majesty, on his favourite mare, with 

 hounds;" "A Royalist Family taken Prisoners by 

 the Puritans ; " " Waiting for the Laird ; " " The 

 Meet at Crick ; " " The Death of the Hare at 

 Stonehenge ; " " The Last Resource ; " " Androcles 

 and the Lion ; " " The Last Stake; " and " Border 

 Law." The last a Sporting Magazine critic, 

 writing on the Royal Academy pictures of 1838, 

 considered " the best the Barrauds have in the 

 e.xhibition," being noteworthy for its boldness of 

 conception. The work represented the return of 

 some marauding chieftain with a maiden on his 



