52 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



artist's first commission. Tiney, another grey- 

 hound, whose portrait was engraved for the 

 magazine, won the Puppy Cup at Epsom in 

 1827. Twilight, a blue bitch, and Wyandotte, 

 a red do^, met in the deciding course for the 

 Wiltshire Coursino- Prize Picture. Sarah Bate 

 and Sedlitz were noted greyhounds ; the former, 

 in 1844, won a Puppy Stake, and in 1845 she 

 beat Captain Daintree's famous Killena in a 

 match for 100 guineas at Newmarket. Sedlitz, 

 in October, 1845 (then named Fan), ran up 

 to Pilgrim for the Great Champion Puppy Stake 

 at Amesbury ; in the following December she 

 won the Champion Puppy Cup at Newmarket ; 

 in 1847 she divided the Deptford All-aged Stakes 

 with Mr. Etwall's Waterfall ; and at Amesbury 

 won the first sixteen-dog stake for the Great 

 Wiltshire Coursing- Picture. Midsummer and 

 Snowball belonged to Mr. Henry Miller, of 

 Frome ; the former, a red bitch, won a ;^50 stake 

 at the Deptford Open Meeting in December, 1847. 

 A good example of William Barraud's skilful 

 handling of animals in motion is his picture of 

 Winchelsea, a deer belonging to the Surrey Stag- 

 hounds. Mr. Robinson, the master, bought him 

 with twenty others from Sir Edward Dering, 

 of Surrenden in Kent with whose hounds he had 

 given long runs. Winchelsea once went down a 



