1 68 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



The Nevj Sporting Magazine, vol. viii., for 

 Januar)-, 1835, gives a description of the work. 



" Here is the f>ortrait of a veteran sportsman — a man in his 

 eighty-fifth year, who is yet able to get to hounds ! beautifully 

 drawn on stone by the hand of a fair lady. Why, it is 

 enough to rejuvenate the old fellow ! This picture of one of 

 the men of olden times — who flourished in the palmy days 

 of the Pytchley and " Dick Knight " — is published for the 

 benefit of the venerable subject of it, both Mr. Femeley and 

 his daughter ha^-ing, with a Hberality of feeling that reflects 

 the highest credit on their character, given their time and 

 talents to its execution. The likeness is admirable, and we 

 feel assured that Mr. and Miss Ferneley's charitable exer- 

 tions only require to be known to receive the generous 

 suppon of the hunting world, particularly of the gentlemen 

 who are acquainted with the original. We have elsewhere 

 in this number said a few words on behalf of the ser\-ants of 

 hunting establishments, and have often regretted the non- 

 existence of a benevolent fund among them, from which aged 

 and infirm members might draw a little relief in sickness and 

 the decline of life ; for as things now stand we hold it to be no 

 discredit to them not to have saved a competency during 

 their ser\-itude, and such, we fear, is the case with honest 

 Samuel Dumbleton." 



Ferneley's contributions to the Royal Academy 

 were less numerous than his large output might 

 justify us in expecting ; the probability is that in 

 his day the practice, now so usual among painters, 

 of stipulating for permission to exhibit a work before 

 delivery to the person who had commissioned it, 

 was not in vogue. During the period 1806- 1853 

 he sent only nineteen pictures. In the issues of 

 the Sporting Magazine, between the years 18 12 and 



