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the first sportsmen in England. Of these, as 

 collectors of his works, may be named, H.M. 

 George IV. ; the Dukes of Grafton, Bedford, and 

 Marlborough ; the Marquis of Stafford ; the Earls 

 of Essex, Carlisle, Egremont, Upper Ossory, and 

 Brownlow ; Lords Ribblesdale, Arundel, Towns- 

 end, Ducie, Kerr, Bentinck, and Holland ; the 

 Hon. Grantley Berkeley ; Sirs M. White Ridley, 

 R. C. Hoare, G. T. Hampson, J. Swinburne, and 

 Grey Egerton ; Colonel Udney ; Messrs. Henry 

 Meux, G. W. Taylor, H. Combe, E. Marjoribanks, 

 George Morant, J. G. Lambton, F. Freeling, J. 

 Archer-Houblon, R. Alston, T. Miles, R. Frank- 

 land, John Turner, T. Nash, N. W. Ridley Col- 

 borne, and D. Marjoribanks. 



A writer in the Sporting Magazine (vol. cxxxiv.) 

 of 1859 so aptly sums up the merits of this artist's 

 works that we cannot do better than quote a few 

 lines from him : — 



" Whether racing, hunting, shooting, or fishing, you have 

 only to look at them to see that they are done by a thorough 

 sportsman, and are sure to bring back some pleasant recol- 

 lection of the past — either when you were at Newmarket and 

 had a pony on something of Lord George's — you re- 

 member John Day sitting with his hands on both thighs, 

 the horse with his nostrils extended, and remarked the 

 dilated eye on his going back to weigh just as Mr. Cooper 

 had depicted him ; how Todd, when Mr. Coombe hunted 

 the Berkeley country, capped on the hounds in the Wood- 

 lands when the meet was at Halton, and the fox broke away 



