164 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



some of the other leading Meltonians are equally 

 well up. 



" Scurry," painted for Mr. Crawfurd, of Langton 

 Hall, is a large canvas which has special interest 

 as containing the portraits of three famous sports- 

 men, .Sir Harry Goodricke, Squire Osbaldeston 

 and Mr. Francis Holyoake (afterwards Sir F. 

 Holyoake Goodricke). In reference to the last- 

 named, a quotation from Sir John Eardley Wilmot's 

 Reminiscences of Thomas Assheton Smith, Esq., 

 published by John Murray, is not out of place 

 here : 



" He was first man at one time for a twenty minutes' thing, 

 was Mr. Holyoake. To see him ride Brilliant, shoving the 

 fox along 1 This horse was a rich dark chestnut ; such a 

 countenance, such an eye ; he had him from Newmarket. Sir 

 Harry Goodricke, Sir St. Vincent Cotton, and Mr. Holyoake 

 lived together at Quorn, and were called ' The Sporting 

 Triumvirate.' Mr. Holyoake succeeded by will to the entire 

 property of his brother-sportsman. Sir H. Goodricke, whose 

 name he took, and was afterwards created a baronet. He 

 himself rode Young Sheriff for several seasons. Clinker 

 originally belonged to him, but was subsequently bought by 

 Captain Ross. Sir Francis Goodricke has long since left the 

 hunting-field under the influence of deep and very sincere 

 religious impressions ; the zeal which unilormly displayed 

 itself with such ardour in his case in the pursuit of a 

 favourite diversion, is now directed with even greater 

 strength and intensity into a far higher and nobler channel." 



Among J. E. Ferneley's other pictures may 

 be mentioned a smaller work, termed " Modern 



