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Howard, Esq., a picture of Lear, a celebrated 

 retriever, which was bred by the Marquess of 

 Carmarthen. An engraving from this picture 

 appeared in the New Sporting Revieisj, vol. viii. 



For Mr. William Scott, Dalby painted the por- 

 trait of Blacklock's well-known son Velocipede, 

 winner of the York St. Legrer in 1828. The size 

 of this canvas is 29 inches by 24 inches. 



Let us revert to the artist's fox-hunting pictures. 

 Li 1824, he painted three hunting pieces, "Lord 

 Harewood's Hunt" (as the Bramham Moor was 

 called during the twenty years of Lord Harewood's 

 mastership) at Knaresborough. No. i shows 

 The Meet, a group of eight horsemen waiting 

 in easy attitudes for the hounds ; a clump of trees 

 forms an effective back-ground ; in the right dis- 

 tance the pack with huntsman and whipper-in are 

 approaching, through a stream. The eight figures 

 are evidently portraits, but whose it is not possible 

 now to discover. No. 2, Full Cry, shows the 

 pack with huntsman in attendance, driving through 

 a wide stretch of water ; and in No. 3, The 

 Death, hounds are in the near foreground breaking 

 up their fox. These pictures, which are in the 

 writer's possession, are of uniform size, showing 

 that they form a series. They are very cleverly 

 drawn ; again we recognise Dalby's close and 

 careful study of horse and hound in action, and the 



