112 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



" Mr. W'armg, as Master of Harriers, hunts the country 

 between Farningham and Sevenoaks, in Kent. The horse 

 upon which he is mounted may be called a pattern-card for 

 the purpose for which he is wanted. From the great obHquity 

 of shoulder he must be a good and safe fencer, and from the 

 setting-on of his head and his apparently placid disposition, 

 it is no wonder he is a favourite. His hounds, as Mr. 

 Cooper has represented them, are thoroughbred harriers, 

 without a cross of foxhound, not rounded in the ear and 

 conveying to us the idea of being well calculated to hunt." 



The reproduction from W. B. Scott's engraving 

 preserves the prominent features of the artist's 

 wonderful draughtsmanship ; the drawing of horse 

 and hounds aHke betray his talent for catching the 

 character and subtle peculiarities of individual 

 animals. 



Cooper had practical and intimate knowledge of 

 field sports, and this knowledge is made very 

 evident in his pictures. He v/as an all-round 

 sportsman, who rode well to hounds ; was a good 

 shot and an exceptionally clever fly-fisher. He 

 was a keen angler to the last. It is recorded of 

 him that from a lake in Capheaton Park, North- 

 umberland, the seat of Sir John Swinburne, Bart., 

 which he frequently fished during his later years, 

 he killed pike, perch, and other coarse fish with 

 the fiy. In the Sporting Magazine of 1859 we 

 find reference to the artist's love of the rod ; then 

 seventy-two years old, he was "as fond as ever 

 of the art, a very expert fisherman, and well 



