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patrons such men as the Duke of Rutland, the 

 Marquis of Westminster, the Earls of Cadogan 

 and Kintore, Lords Jersey, Middleton, Forester, 

 Gardner, and Tyrone, the Hon. Augustus Craven, 

 Sir Bellingham Graham, Sir Harry Goodricke, Sir 

 J. Crewe, Mr. F. H. Standish, and many of the 

 other celebrated hard riders of the time. 



Among Ferneley's best known pictures may be 

 noted one painted in the year 1815 for the Earl 

 of Plymouth, " The Quorn Hunt, Mr. Thomas 

 Assheton Smith and his hounds"; a group of fifteen 

 sportsmen. Mr. Assheton Smith stands by his 

 horse Gift, a light chestnut, whose rein is held by 

 Dick Burton. He is talking to Mr. Mills, who is 

 mounted on an iron-grey. Lord Plymouth stands 

 near, leaning over his horse Fancy ; Tom Edge is 

 on Cayman ; and Jack Shirley from the back of 

 Young Jack o'Lantern looks down on his favourite 

 hounds. Young Will Burton lingers on the out- 

 skirts of the group waiting to see hounds thrown 

 into covert before he takes home his master's hack. 

 (Young Burton was only fourteen years old at the 

 time this picture was painted, and he died a few 

 months afterwards). The meet is at Barkby Holt, 

 and the eye, passing the church tower of Hunger- 

 ton and Quenby Hall, rests on the fir-clad eminence 

 of Billesdon Coplow. 



For Sir Bellingham Graham, who was Master 



