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early riser; no matter how sleepless or full of pain 

 the night, he was in his studio with the morning 

 light. He was a man whose interests were not 

 confined to his own department of art ; to the end 

 of his life it was his custom to come up to London 

 every year to keep himself abreast of the artistic 

 life of the time by visiting the exhibitions. 



Many of the equine portraits and hunting pieces 

 which came from his prolific brush adorn the walls 

 of English country houses ; these, as we have said, 

 were his specialities, but he occasionally painted 

 scenes of Turf and Coaching life and other sporting 

 subjects. Many of Ferneley's works will live to 

 perpetuate his name in the world of sport ; for if 

 his achievements were not of an order which would 

 entitle him to rank with the first animal painters 

 of his time, it must be admitted that he possessed 

 gifts, the exercise of which assured him the patron- 

 age of the best sportsmen of his day, and also won 

 him, despite his humble origin, the personal friend- 

 ship of all with whom he came in contact. 



He married, first Miss Sally Kettle, by whom 

 he had seven children, and who died in 1836. 

 His second wife. Miss Ann Allan, by whom he 

 had one son, died in 1853. Two of his sons 

 followed in his footsteps, John, of whom some 

 notice follows, and Claude Lorraine, landscape and 

 animal painter. 



