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and " The Day after the Fair." These were 

 remarked for the skill with which the rustic 

 characters were portrayed, and for the mastery 

 of colour displayed. In 18 14 he painted, in col- 

 laboration with Benjamin Marshall, a portrait of 

 Thomas Gosden, the famous sporting bookbinder, 

 whose name recurs more than once in these pages. 

 Gosden is represented, gun in hand, with dogs 

 beside him. This picture was beautifully engraved 

 in mezzotint. A work published in 18 15, entitled 

 Recreations in Naticral History or Popular Sketches 

 of British Quadrupeds, large paper, quarto, con- 

 tains twenty-four plates engraved from pictures by 

 Luke Clennell. In 18 16 he won the premium of 

 150 guineas, offered by the British Institution, for 

 the best sketch of " The Decisive Charge of the 

 Life Guards at Waterloo," with a picture that did 

 much to increase public interest in his work and 

 enhance his reputation. This canvas and another 

 of exceptional excellence, " The Overthrow of 

 the French Army at the Battle of Waterloo," 

 were shown at the exhibition of the British 

 Institution in 18 16. 



It cannot be doubted but that these pictures, 

 more especially the former, were the means of 

 brino-inof the artist the commission which contri- 

 buted much to induce the terrible affliction which 

 terminated his working life in 181 7. The Earl 



