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person with me last year to do justice to the views 

 I had been so enchanted with," Gilpin promised 

 " to exert himself to find some young man of good 

 family whose abilities were equal to the task," and 

 suggested among others, George Garrard. For 

 excellent reasons Colonel Thornton chose Gilpin's 

 old pupil — " The scenes which I wished to have 

 painted were to illustrate not only the views as mere 

 views, but as scenes adapted to sport ; and his forte 

 in animals was very manifest ; his age, constitution 

 and acknowledged rising genius would admit of no 

 comparison ; added to which he was an excellent 

 walker." 



During his patron's six months' tour about the 

 northern counties of England and the Highlands of 

 Scotland, Garrard's brush was steadily employed ; 

 and when the Sporting Tour was published in 1804, 

 the work was illustrated with engravings from these 

 pictures. 



Garrard, after his tour in the wilds of Scotland 

 with his patron, appears to have settled down in 

 London to work at his profession. The Royal 

 Academy exhibition of 1786, contained evidence of 

 his travels in a " View of Hamilton Palace," and 

 a "View of Inverary, in Argyllshire," another view 

 of the same mansion being shown in the following 

 year. Portraits of horses and dogs and landscapes 

 make up the majority of his contributions during 



