WILLIAM BARRAUD 53 



deep cutting on the Brighton Railway, near 

 Merstham, and led hounds in full cry through 

 the tunnel. The train from London to Brighton, 

 the deer, and the pack were all in the tunnel 

 together, but quarry and hounds emerged in 

 safety. 



In the volumes of the New Sporting Magazine, 

 between 1831 and 1836, are five engravings 

 from William Barraud's pictures, three of them the 

 coursing subjects for which he seems to have had 

 a special liking. 



If this artist attained to no conspicuous eminence 

 he was at least a clever draughtsman who has 

 left us good work in his pictures of sport, por- 

 traits of sportsmen and famous horses and dogs. 

 He did not confine his brush to sport and kindred 

 subjects ; a few of his Royal Academy works 

 betray his taste for classic and historical scenes, 

 while the pictures by which he is probably most 

 widely known are two of a sentimental or pathetic 

 character. The plates which were engraved from 

 these had an enormous sale 



William Barraud died after a short illness in 

 1850 at the comparatively early age of 40 years. 

 He left one son, a member of the Catholic priest- 

 hood, believed to be living in 1898 at George- 

 town in the United States. 



