72 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



pelled resignation of the appointment. He exe- 

 cuted some pictures to the Royal command, 

 nevertheless ; the originals may be seen at 

 Cumberland Lodge ; engravings therefrom are in 

 Her Majesty's collection at Windsor Castle. Lord 

 Mount Edgcumbe was one of the more prominent 

 men of the day whom Boultbee counted among 

 his patrons. 



In 1802 the artist painted a set of four hunting 

 scenes, uniform in size, viz., 2 feet by i foot 6 

 inches; these are (i) The Start, (2) At Fault, 

 (3) Full Cry, and (4) The Death. In these 

 pictures both horses and hounds are carefully 

 and cleverly portrayed, and are very realistic. 

 The huntsman and whipper-in are the only human 

 subjects represented, and their dress displays the 

 style of the period. These four works are in the 

 Elsenham collection and a photograph of the last 

 is here reproduced. The old-fashioned curly horn 

 carried by the huntsman will be noticed. 



One of the artist's pictures, the portrait of a 

 favourite horse belonging to his brother Thomas, 

 is now in the possession of the Rev. James 

 Boultbee, Vicar of Wrangthorn, near Leeds ; 

 another " Gulliver among the Houyhnhnms," is 

 owned by the Rev. George Herbert, Rector of 

 Gannerew, near Monmouth. Both of these works 

 display the painter's ability, but unfortunately 



