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Burdett, Sir Edward Mostyn, Sir Francis Mackenzie, 

 Col. the Hon. Arden, the Hon. Robert Grosvenor, 

 Captain Frederick Berkeley, Captain C. Berkeley, 

 Captain Garth, Captain Ross, Count Sandois, 

 Messrs. George Anson, Blount, "Billy" Coke,* 

 Maxse, Maher, White, Kent, Patrick, T. Heycock. 

 Gilmore, Nicholson, Lyne Stephens, Wharton, John 

 Wormald, Henry Wormald, and Dick Christian. 

 The riders are represented in very various attitudes : 

 Sir F. Holyoake Goodricke, who was said to 

 try and catch the fox himself, is leading, while 

 others are riding: hard, fallino- off — in short, in everv' 

 position in which the fortune of the chase may find 

 a keen rider. On the left of the picture we see a 

 group, eager and angry, having been stopped at a 

 gate in a lane by a brood mare and her foal, which 

 block their way. This canvas is in the Elsenham 

 collection; it is dated 1S28; size, 83 inches by 25 

 inches. 



" Sir Francis Burdett, Bart." : an equestrian por- 

 trait. Ferneley received from Miss Burdett Coutts 

 (now the Baroness Burdett Coutts) the commission 

 to paint this picture of her father, who then resided 

 at Foremark, Derbyshire. Sir Francis Burdett 

 died in 1844. 



* This gentleman, nephew of Mr. Coke, who was afterwards created Earl 

 of Leicester, is portrayed in the foreground on his famous chestnut Advance. 

 Mr. William Coke introduced the low-crowned hat in which Ferneley has 

 represented him ; this style of head gear was afterwards known by his name 

 in the slightly corrupted form of " Billycock. " 



