S6 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



23, Cockspur Street, the former on 25th March, 

 1809, the latter on the 12 th August in the same 

 year. The portrait of Barbarossa, also shown at 

 the Royal Academy of 1S08, was engraved by 

 William Ward, plate 2i|- inches by 15! inches, 

 was published by C. Random, at The Sporting 

 Gallery, 5, Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, on 

 2nd December, 1809. His portrait of Selim was 

 also engraved by W. Ward, plate 2 if inches by 

 16 inches, and published by Random & Sneath, 

 The Sporting Gallery, 5, Hart Street, Bloomsbury 

 Square, on 25th March, 1809. 



Among the many interesting pictures by this 

 artist from which plates were engraved for the 

 Sportivg Magazine, may be noticed the portrait 

 of a famous Fighting Dog, owned by Lord 

 Camelford ; this dog is said to have killed three 

 celebrated dogs in his time and was never beaten. 

 Dog-fighting, it is hardly necessary to observe, 

 was one of the barbarous, but fashionable, "sports " 

 of the age. Flora was a famous hunter, belong- 

 ing to Lord Darlington ; her great achievement was 

 a leap of 23 feet 3 inches. Streamer was a red 

 greyhound bred by Mr. George Lane Fox, of 

 Bramham Park, and owned by the Rev. F. Best ; 

 he won the Cup at the Malton Coursing meeting 

 in 1 82 1. Vanity, a blue and white greyhound 

 bitch, also the property of Mr. Best, won the Cup 



