66 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



with an earthen vessel ; a partridge and a hare 

 with a long string of onions hang on the right ; 

 shelf with bottle and baskets in the near back- 

 ground. On board : size gi inches by 1 1 inches. 

 Yet another shows a hare, with wild duck and other 

 smaller birds on a table, a rush game bag hanging 

 against the wall. On board: size ii^ inches by 

 9 inches. He painted also a picture of " Dead 

 Game " for Lord Francis Egerton for the Bridge- 

 water Gallery. 



Several of Blake's pictures were engraved ; in 

 the Sporting Review for 1843 we find a plate en- 

 graved by Westley from one of his beautiful 

 studies of Dead Game. 



Nothing- can be discovered to show even the 

 approximate date of Edmund Blake's death ; the 

 last trace of his artistic career occurs in the year 

 1833, when a picture from his easel was exhibited 

 in one of the London galleries. His age would 

 then be about 53 years. There is nothing in the 

 Sporting Review of 1843, which contains the plate 

 above mentioned, to show whether the artist was 

 alive in that year. 



