144 ANIMAL PATNTERS 



each case the hunt servants are accompanied by 

 hounds. An additional plate gives portraits of the 

 most prominent hounds in the four packs with 

 their names. The Hunter s Annual does not seem 

 to have enjoyed a very prosperous career for we 

 can trace reference to only three issues of the publi- 

 cation in the Sporting Magazine, the third and 

 evidently last number having appeared in the 

 autumn of 1839. 



One of Davis's most successful hound portraits 

 was that he painted in 1841 of a bitch in the 

 Royal pack named Luxury, bred by his brother. 

 Luxury was considered a model hound ; she came 

 of the best Goodwood and Belvoir blood, and stood 

 23 inches high ; she was six years old when she 

 stood for her portrait. The sixth volume of the 

 Sporting Review contained a well-executed engrav- 

 ing by A. Warren from this picture ; a reproduction 

 of this plate faces this page. 



Davis's picture of Hermit deserves mention as 

 one of his best equine portraits. Hermit was a grey, 

 bred by Mr. Gates, of Brookwood Stumps, near 

 Woking, by Grey Skin out of a white Arab mare, 

 and was considered by Charles Davis the stoutest 

 and best hunter he ever had. His speed and bottom 

 were proved one day when Harry King, who was 

 riding" him, received the order to stop hounds when 

 they "were rtying like pigeons" over the grass 



